RE: Un-Deform through weightmap

["kim aldis" <kim(at)aldis.org.uk>]

I’ve just been reminding myself about your rather nice demo for putting textures from mr into the realtime display, Guillaume. Nice, and I think I’m going to be using it here a lot. I’m starting to get rather attached to lightmaps. They’re cool, aren’t they.

 

 

From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of guillaume laforge
Sent: 02 July 2006 08:23
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Un-Deform through weightmap

 

I think it is possible with a scripted operator reading before the last operator but it is not the fastest solution if nobody already write a scop like this ( I don't speak of speed execution/interaction ).

The "out of the box solution" is to duplicate your object before the problematic operator ( a lattice for example ) and apply a shape key from the copy after the problematic operator. This way you can modulate the shape with a weight map.


Cheers,


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On 7/2/06, Joe Laffey < joe(at)laffey.tv> wrote:

In noticing how many Deform tools do NOT have the ability to modulate
their effects through a weightmap I go to thinking: does there exist a
tool to un-deform an object through a weightmap? This would let you use
the inverted weightmap to get the same effect as limiting ANY deform by a
weightmap.

Sounds like an insanely useful tool. So I wondered if such a thing
existed...

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