using proxies for soft body simulations

[Brian Jones]

yes it’s possible but I’m out of time for the moment. You can use a Mesh Deformer but the order of the steps is very important. I’ll post later when I’m back.

[Brian Jones]

Not sure if this is the right version of the file or not (or if there’s a better way) as I’m doing this off the phone and I domt remember if it’s saved at home or not…
If it’s working— in this example I used spheres as the deformation is easier to see. It uses a Mesh deformer to use the proxies shape and is a child of the proxy in the cloner to follow it. The order of putting it together is very important though
– both proxy and high need to be editable (the Mesh deformer needs that)
– the proxy has to be a bit bigger to contain the volume (at least in my testing) – a problem in the example since it’s a sphere and simpler, a bit more detail in the proxy would help but it will be dead easy for cubes I would think
– drop the proxy into the deformer’s Cages slot do not initialize yet
– cache the dynamics
– initialize the Mesh deformer
– fix the visibility (the deformer adds tags)

12306_softbodyproxyc4d.c4d.zip

[Fernando Huezo]

Hello Brian Jones!

First that all thank you very much this really works very well!

the method is a bit complicated compared to the workflow of Houdini or Maya, I think it might be possible using xRef or intance to be more procedural, I’m not sure but I’ll try and tell you later

again thank you very much!!!! +100

[Brian Jones]

as I said it might not be the best way, hopefully there’s a better one

[Fernando Huezo]

I just tried but it failed haha ????

So I´ll keep using your method

thanks!!!