LauraSkowronski
11-23-2004, 06:06 AM
I hope this is relevant and an 'ok' place to post about this problem. I'm not a frequent flyer so I'd appreciate feedback (positive and negative) or please point me where to go.
I'm running into some problems with some blendshapes. I have a character that is 5800 vertices which I duplicated and created several blendshapes. I've done this before. However, this time, to save time, I went ahead and copied certain parts which I wanted to use on the other side (this is a somewhat asymmetrical character; but say for instance that I wanted a blendshape with the right eyebrow rising, and I already sculpted the left. What I did was I took the portion of the face that I wanted from the left (using duplicate, deleted faces I didn't need) then scaled at a -1 x value (for mirror effect), then moved it on top of the blendshape for the right side, and deleted the faces from that geometry so that the mirrored piece would fit in. I then combined the mirrored piece from the left side and the entire right side geometry so that I could merge vertices. I made sure I ended with exactly 5800 vertices).
Anyway. If I haven't already confused you, my problem is this:
When I create the blendshape and test out the slider for the right side (for example, the eyebrow rising), the geometry explodes. It just goes everywhere. A friend of mine suggested it's because I deleted faces and re-added them, and even though it was the correct number of faces and all the appropriate vertices were merged, there is a history of idenity on each of the vertices, and if you delete some, the identifications are recalculated or something. Is there a script or some kind of node I can change, or an attribute, that might help me solve this without having to start over?
Please let me know. All comments are appreciated!
-Laura
I'm running into some problems with some blendshapes. I have a character that is 5800 vertices which I duplicated and created several blendshapes. I've done this before. However, this time, to save time, I went ahead and copied certain parts which I wanted to use on the other side (this is a somewhat asymmetrical character; but say for instance that I wanted a blendshape with the right eyebrow rising, and I already sculpted the left. What I did was I took the portion of the face that I wanted from the left (using duplicate, deleted faces I didn't need) then scaled at a -1 x value (for mirror effect), then moved it on top of the blendshape for the right side, and deleted the faces from that geometry so that the mirrored piece would fit in. I then combined the mirrored piece from the left side and the entire right side geometry so that I could merge vertices. I made sure I ended with exactly 5800 vertices).
Anyway. If I haven't already confused you, my problem is this:
When I create the blendshape and test out the slider for the right side (for example, the eyebrow rising), the geometry explodes. It just goes everywhere. A friend of mine suggested it's because I deleted faces and re-added them, and even though it was the correct number of faces and all the appropriate vertices were merged, there is a history of idenity on each of the vertices, and if you delete some, the identifications are recalculated or something. Is there a script or some kind of node I can change, or an attribute, that might help me solve this without having to start over?
Please let me know. All comments are appreciated!
-Laura