we have a set of weightmap tools that we've been using for years here at
lamaison.
they were mainly written by aloys just before he left us for some
penguins adventure. :)
we had the idea to give it away to the community for some times now and
periodically forget about it..
this thread is a good opportunity to do it finally.
http://www.alamaison.fr/3d/lmWeightMapTools/index.html
you can achieve a lot of different effects by combining all these tools
together.
We used them heavily in production here , so it should be stable.(we
didn't test them so much in 5.0)
it should work on windows and linux.
Source code is included , under GPL licence ...
luc froehlicher - CG supervisor - lamaison
<mailto:XSI(at)softimage.com>somebody should still have, on XSIbase, a
small suite of tools that
change weightmaps by proximity to an implicit, including falloff
controls etc; I remember helping whoever it was with something in a
SCOP, must have been almost a year ago now.
I also posted a self-installing plugin on CGTalk some time ago that
supports several types of implicits or a planar curve to describe a more
arbitrary shape, can't seem to find it though and I don't have it with
me in Oz (although I have a WIP version of some WMap tools like mixer,
map2grid, wmap tools etc. that I already gave to a few people).
it should be possible to get some funky stuff done with what's already
out there, it will simply take some forum scavenging; but I agree, it
would be nice to see a new panel in XSI that revamps enveloping AND
weightmap painting and management.
maybe the efforts that went into the TLE should have gone into some WMap
tools instead :), but then hindsight is 20/20 they say.
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