remember that cage deformer is point influence to point deformer.
enveloping would soon turn into a nightmare with any mesh past uberlow
res, and there would need to be a property on the cage just to see what
points have what colours (and it would be pretty hard to read, as you'd
run out of easily identifiable colours pretty soon).
there could be several helpers you could want to use maybe, like little
tools to paint maps to diffuse or contrast the weights only in certain
areas, but they'd all be pretty tricky to use, and they'd be unbearably
slow if they did anything more then updating the deformers table.
the only thing I could think of would be exposing the map directly into
a GridData for manipulation, which isn't too hard to script really.
anything I'm not thinking of that you have in mind Andre?
I'm writing several map tools these days for weightmaps, envelopes and
other assorted things, maybe there's an idea in your brain worth picking
up : D
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Andre DeAngelis wrote:
I would definitely second this request. I would add enveloping controls to cage deformers to the list also.
I think shrinkwrap and cage deformers could be taken a lot further in terms of felxibility.
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:39 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Is anybody using the shrink wrap with new options to simulate skin over muscles?
shrinkwrap as an enveloping method (full table of the influence of
deformers) and weightmaps on lattices are both logged hopefully, I sure requested them a few times : D
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Jordi Bares wrote:
I have already suggested this via the support so hopefully this will be
on the to-do list :-)
jb
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 10:25 -0400, Jérôme Couture-Gagnon wrote:
You are right Luke, shrinkwrap doesn't work on multiple target
objects, and merging objects is the only way right now.
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