MildlyRedBeard Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Hey Everyone, So I have this basic growth effect going (eventually its going to be some sort of magic reveal). As you can see the growth animation is happening with the character in a reference pose. I'm going to have the character animated (probably just a walk cycle) and I would like to deform the growth mesh to match the movement from the animated mesh (so that essentially the character is being revealed while walking). I'm wondering if anyone has tried this or has an idea for how to do it. So far the best result I've gotten have been with the Cloth Capture and Deform Nodes, but I'm still getting some issues. The main problem is that the capture radius required for a good result changes depending on how far the point is from the surface, so no matter what I set it to there's always a part that doesn't quite work. Does anyone know if there's another way of achieving this? Any suggestions at all would be much appreciated. Later on when I have a bit more time I'll post an example scene of what I've tried already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Point deform can help you out with that. You basically construct your animated effect on a freeze frame pose, as you have shown. Then you deform that result based upon the animated version. Place your reveal effect inside the teal box area shown within the network. ap_point_deform_animated_reveal.hiplc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsys Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 chop‘s Radial Basis Function can be do this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MildlyRedBeard Posted January 18, 2019 Author Share Posted January 18, 2019 @Atom thanks for the tip. I was having some issues with point deform originally but subdividing the mesh seems to have fixed the issue. As a follow up, while it seems to work fine so far for walks and runs and general animations, I've found it seems to struggle for things with lots of local deformation. For example I did a quick softbody vellum sim on the pighead, and then I tried to deform an eroded version of the pig (convert to vdb->erode->convert to polys) and I get some intersecting around areas with a lot deformation. The sim mesh itself doesn't intersect at all, and subdividing the sim mesh doesn't help either. Do you have any ideas on how to get around a problem like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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