free Expresso: VertexMorph

[Gunter]

Thanks a lot Olli. Wish you many coffeebreaks :)

Gunter

[Darter]

Just did a quick test with the target map in a Restriction Tag on various deformers. Funky!

This obviously has many uses, thanks for sharing.

[flyingP]

in your coffee break huh :) very cool and thanks

[Distal]

just tried it, Thx olli !

i already wanted to merge 2 vertexmaps and that works great :)

[wuensch]

in your coffee break huh :) very cool and thanks

hehe,Brian,
I am waiting for a confirmation of the pencils of a storyboard so i can finalize it--
and i am still waiting, so its a lot of coffee ;-)


btw.: didnt you want to call me because of something?

Olli

[pit]

Olli, drink more coffee!

Thanks for sharing :thumbsup:

[flyingP]

hehe,Brian,
I am waiting for a confirmation of the pencils of a storyboard so i can finalize it--
and i am still waiting, so its a lot of coffee ;-)


btw.: didnt you want to call me because of something?

Olli

already sent you an email, have run into a bit of hassle that I am am trying to clear up atm, but yeah I'll be trying to call sometime this week :)

[AkaKico]

Hey great expresso! I have a slightly modified version (With Olli's permission) here.
I've added a second slider that lets the two vertex tags get added to eachother as well as swap.

Thanks again Olli!

[wuensch]

Very nice addition-- this is evolving into a nifty little animation gizmo---:buttrock:

Olli

[danb]

This looks cool but what can be done with this?

[wuensch]

you can morph the influence of vertexmap, so basically you can alter & animate the result of Deformers that use a vertexmap for restriction--
also you can use it to animate some Shave& haircut parameters that need Vertexmap-Input.



Olli

[GordonHo]

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hadnt time yet to try it out. stupid hair is giving me quite some other trouble, but aparently thats more like a bug. and ive stoped working on the hair/grass for the moment and concentrage on the other parts...

[AkaKico]

you can morph the influence of vertexmap, so basically you can alter & animate the result of Deformers that use a vertexmap for restriction--
also you can use it to animate some Shave& haircut parameters that need Vertexmap-Input.
Olli

There is also the Vertex Map shader. Useful for animating textures :)

[danb]

Thanks guys. Is this stuff covered in the manuals? I would like to learn those techniques mentioned.

[AkaKico]

Quick test of animated texture using VertexMorph
(Sorry for .zip Movie, away from ftp :sad: )

Edit: Added another little clip

[wuensch]

yup, thats how I started to look if there is also a reverse shader that outputs to vertexmap (there is one as a Tag in DiTools).
One would be able to do that in expresso, too with the new bitmap-node.
edit: cool test-- the Vetrexshader definitely has some potential in conjunction with morph stuff---
I see some interesting wobbling deforming eyecandy stuff-- hmm--

EDIT2:
that second example rocks--
what did you do to morph the displacement-- oh wait, probably you did a layer-fusion thing in Displacement with the vertexshader--or--

olli

[Erik Heyninck]

I must have missed this thread...Thanks for sharing and I am most impressed that you went as far as breaking your coffee for this. ;)

[wuensch]

I must have missed this thread...Thanks for sharing and I am most impressed that you went as far as breaking your coffee for this. ;)
Only so much coffee a man can drink before-- never mind ;-)

Olli

[JoelOtron]

Nice Olli

You guys might also want to look at Paul everett's Vertex morpher--

http://tools4d.com/Freebee/plugin_free.htm

[wuensch]

hehe--thats really how this thing happened-- i had the vertexmorph track and since i wanted to give some advice how to morph Vertextags in another thread (Shave manipulation for grass), I looked at it and saw it was from Paul Everett, but could not find out which of his plugs it belonged too.I just have too many.
So i started engeneering this in Expresso to give a plugin-independent example.

In the end, as Kiko has shown, its more flexible and easy to enhance once the basics of the expresso are covered.


Olli

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