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A way to get Explosion FX Deformer to ignore N-gons?
Hi,
I’ve created a platonic buckyball and made it editable and removed all extra edges so the geometry now is made up of true hexagons. Removed edges inside the hexagons are now N-gons. I’ve also applied the Explosion FX Deformer.
My problem is that the Explosion FX Deformer converts the N-gons to regular edges. I just want true hexagons.I need this because I wish to put the object in an Atom Array without any extra tubes generated inside the hexagons.
Is there a way to get the Explosion FX Deformer to ignore the N-gons?
Or another way to achieve then same result? Where the explosion parameters are dynamic?
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See if this works for you:
1. Select all the bucky ball polygons and run Mesh>Commands>Disconnect with the preserve groups option disabled;
2. Instead of using the Explosion FX deformer, use a MoGraph Random Effector. In the effector’s Deformer tab, set the mode to Polygon. Then make the effector a child of the bucky ball object;
3. Place the bucky ball object as a child of the atom array.
Now you can animate the random effector to create the explosion. Not quite the same controls as Explosion FX but it might do the trick.
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Thanx Adam!
Thats it!But I used the MoGraph Push Apart Effector instead.
I am looking for a non random look in the “explosion”, this did the trick!
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