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Alternatives to Morph Target
Hi. Im trying to animate an organic mesh from one state to the other. The easy solution would be to use morph targets. Problem is, I don’t have Mocca. Are there any workarounds to not having a morph target. I’ve tried using 2 clones and the inheritance effector but it doesn’t seem to work for a single mesh. If I can’t find a workaround I’m gonna have to break apart the object into multiple meshes but that won’t look nearly as accurate as good compared to the look Im going for. See the pictures below for details…
Example 1
State 1
[IMG]https://joelhebert.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Picture-3.png%5B/IMG%5DState 2
[IMG]https://joelhebert.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Picture-4.png%5B/IMG%5DExample 2
State 1
[IMG]https://joelhebert.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Picture-6.png%5B/IMG%5DState 2
[IMG]https://joelhebert.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Picture-5.png%5B/IMG%5DThanks
Joel H. -
4 Replies
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Can you not Animate a tube with a deformer or two on it?
Can you simply key frame the scale of a selection?Or:
You can use PLA but it would be very difficult to repeat of make changes….so
You could connect all the points you want to move to nulls in xpresso then plug the nulls into a user data slider. The user data slider would have to be adjusted but it would work similar to morph target.I am sure there are more ways.
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I’d say that PLA is the best solution without having to make additional purchases. If you just want morphing but don’t want to spring for the whole Mocca module you could buy Cactus Dan’s morphing plugin: https://www.cactus3d.com/CDMorphR9.html
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Randy,
Sorry Im dumb when it comes to animation, what is the PLA? -
PLA stands for point-level animation: basically animation the position of an object’s points. You enable it by clicking the icon that looks like a grid of points at the bottom right of the time slider.
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