Non dynamic deforming mesh as influencer?

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#1

Hey guys,

Quick question.

Is it possible to use a single deforming mesh as an influencer on my markers? ‘Assign Environment’ is great, but of course only works on static geo. I don’t need the deforming mesh to be dynamic, but I’m hoping there’s a way that I can get my markers to interact with it.

I know the next best thing would be to create separate markers for my deforming mesh, but I was hoping there might be a clever solution that would allow the geo itself to interact with my markers. No worries if not!

Cheers!

#2

Heya Ben,

Unfortunately, deformations do not carry into the solver. Only the shape from the first frame is preserved and used as a collider. Separate markers is the only way to cope with this, both now and most likely forever. It’s one of the limitations of the particular technology we are using.

#3

I would use a rivet, and then add a marker in the rivet… that should help to interact with the Deforming mesh

#4

Yep, no problem at all. I was fairly certain that was the case, just wanted to double check.

@Andrei_da_02 - that’s a great suggestion! I’m currently doing something similar. Will see how it goes!

Thanks guys!

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#5

it would be cool to have a script that populated N number of points on a deforming mesh with a static sphere markers that followed a deforming mesh. just to be a collision object.

You could generate DemBones results (FBX of skinned bones from deforming mesh input) . You could just put markers into the bones directly as static markers.

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