keying edit sop

[aracid]

hey all

just a little question about keying points,

i would think through the edit sop.

how can u manually animate the points or faces of nurbs or polys?

thanks in advance

aracid

[deecue]

transform sop

soft transform sop

peak sop

soft peak sop

point sop

[edward]

add sop

[deecue]

add sop

16442[/snapback]

ahh, well played.

[aracid]

hey all

thanks for the reply's

but maybe i wasnt clear enough about what i wanted to do,

basically what u would achieve with a blend shape sop, moving between different poses.

in maya u move into component mode and select ur vertex or point add a key etc.

i would think that u can just key the edit sop, but i havent had any luck with that.

thanks again

aracid

[Jason]

I'm afraid unless you are (crazy enough to be) keying Transform SOPs, the accepted paradigm is to you edit up your target shapes and BlendShapeSOP them together. It seems a little more awkward but you'll find that the blending will be much easier to control just by animating weight shapes rather than trying to handle hundreds of channels representing the animation on each point of a surface.

Hope this helps a little,

Jason

[aracid]

I'm afraid unless you are (crazy enough to be) keying Transform SOPs, the .....

Hope this helps a little,

Jason

16449[/snapback]

hey jason

thanks for the tip

thats pretty much what ive been doing, and it works well, but i just wanted to make sure that there wasnt another solution

thanks to all the previous posters again

aracid

[edward]

Aw come on, that's no fun! Use an add sop to create all your geometry and then animate the point positions there!

In H7.0, there's the new Morph tool that should help a bit should you cowardly decide on the blendshape route.

[sibarrick]

Bring the points into chops and use the graph editing tools there, then export the result back to sops!

[FrankFirsching]

Real men use the Unix-SOP and write a shell script