And don't even think of shortcutting step 2 of Martin's idea (deformer /
envelope assignment) using GATOR. I've just been there and the order of
deformers is not guaranteed to be the same. Catching that one was no fun
at all...
Cheers!
-André
Alastair wrote:
Martin
Thanks for that. Sounds like a plan. I'll try and find a willing scripter.
Alatsair
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Martin Chatterjee wrote:
Alastair,
I'm afraid I don't have an out-of-the-box solution for you...
But I'm pretty sure that this could be scripted quite easily.
I actually never tried this but I think it might be possible to utilize
a temporary cage-deformer for this:
- read out the envelope weights and the deformer list of your polygon
character
- build a default envelope on your curve(s) with the exact same
deformer lists
- cage-deform the curve with the character mesh
- make sure that "Use polygon deformer components" is toggled off in
the Automatic Cage Assignment PPG
- Immediately kill the Cage Deform Operator again.
Your curve now still has the cage weight clusters with the
CageWeights Property!!
- For every Curve point:
- Read out the CageWeights for this CurvePoint.
The CageWeights correspond to the character mesh vertices if
"Use polygon deformer components" was toggled off
- Find the biggest CageWeights (3 to 5 will do, I think)
- Now calculate the new Envelope Weights for this curve point
from the character envelope weights and these CageWeights
Hope this helps, please let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Martin
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