kai.scorpio Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Is there a way to increase the deform due to muscles? My problem now is that the deform is not as noticeable as I would like it to be. For example, is it possible to increase the volume based on muscle length? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 you could use the handles to bulge out the muscle a bit... the point of muscles is to preserve the volume of the geometry as it deforms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 For a two point muscle, the length is vlength(vtorigin("/obj/pt1", "/obj/pt2")). So you can just use this expression to drive the muscle radii. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kai.scorpio Posted March 14, 2008 Author Share Posted March 14, 2008 Something like what edward said would be great... but most of my muscles go through atleast 3 points. Is there any way to measure the length of a curve, because then I could just create a curve through the same points... I'll post the entire rig up for crits once im done with it, this is my first try at using muscles so Ill need all the help I can get! Kai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 you can use the measure SOP...but I don't think you'll have access to the muscle curve, you may have to build another curve that duplicates it, then measure that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 The Mesaure SOP should work if you append it to the Muscle SOP inside the Muscle object. I believe the curve is always the first primitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kai.scorpio Posted March 16, 2008 Author Share Posted March 16, 2008 I tried this method, but I am not sure what to measure, perimiter, area (probably not), or curvature? And what exactly does edward mean by 'the curve is the first primitive' ? There is only the muscle SOP, how can I select only the curve if that is what he is referring to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 you'll want perimiter... and if the curve is the first primitive of the muscle it will work because the measure SOP will take primitive 0 of it's input by default Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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