moving non circular eyes

[mattmos]

Couple of ways you can do this, you can create a spherical eye and then apply a lattice deformation to give it an oval shape, or you can create an oval eye and make the pupil using a texture projection, which you then rotate rather than the eye to move the pupil.

[danydrunk]

by using a lattice oval what is the result? wouldnt it be the same as using say, a polygon oval?

[ntmonkey]

Not really. If you made a polygon oval and try to rotate it, the oblong shape will pop out of the characters' head. Using the lattice allows the shape to spin inside of it. Wow, it is hard to explain. I'd say just try it and you'll see immediately.

peace,

Lu

[mattmos]

just make sure the lattice isn't parented underneaththe eye itself, so that rotations of the eye don't rotate the lattice as well, and bob's your monkey...

[danydrunk]

ok then, Ill try that, thank you !!

[zukezuko]

Check this : http://www.geocities.com/zukezuko/EyeRig.zip
you need xsi 4.2 for this file

Surface contrain pupil to nurb sphere and link the U & V position with the X & Y
position of the null. But the expression needs a bit costumization.

If you need more details on how todo please ask.

[danydrunk]

thanks for the info and your will to help, I will check it out thanks !!

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