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AndrewAnimation
02-18-2006, 02:11 AM
Hello,

What I mean is, for example, if I duplicate a character's head to be a morph target--meaning the vertex count must be equal, and, to the best of my knowledge, not a single vertex can be added or deleted--and then I want the morph target to close its eyes, is there a way in which I can just do the work for one half of the face and somehow duplicate it onto the other half while keeping its ability to be a morph target? So far I've just been doing both sides from scratch, no matter how long it takes to complete a certain expression on only one side alone. I hope I explained it clearly.

Thanks.
HenryGSanchez
02-20-2006, 02:24 AM
Which program are you using? I dont know about other programs but there is a script for Maya that does just that. It saves alot of time.
dalmanna
02-20-2006, 07:17 AM
if your using maya you can also -scale in x and then convert to subdiv then convert back to poly. or vice verser if your using subdivs. saves you getting the script above
AndrewAnimation
02-20-2006, 11:47 AM
Sorry. I'm using 3ds max 8. :)
JYoung
02-20-2006, 01:44 PM
One technique that might help would be to use soft selection and mirror the selection. To do so, you would choose soft selection, hit the paint button and then open brush options. You should see a box for mirror. That would at least allow you to select the same verts on each side of your model.
AndrewAnimation
02-21-2006, 04:22 AM
Wow that sounds awesome Yungimoto, thanks for that info. It'll come in handy sometimes. The only times it wont come in handy are the times where i want to, for example, make one morph target that has the right eye shut, and one morph target that has the left eye shut. i cant just turn on mirror in this case, because both targets must have one eye open. in this case, i would have to shut the right eye myself and then shut the left eye all over again, from scratch, on another mesh. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks!
docross
02-21-2006, 09:18 AM
you could also try this script i've found on the net, i hadn't the time yet to give it a try myself so i'm not sure it works, but it's meant to so....
here's the link:
http://santascript.blogspot.com/

you can find a few other interesting scripts for max too there! :)

hope it helps and please forgive my poor english (as i'm french! :p )
bye
AndrewAnimation
02-21-2006, 03:28 PM
THAT'S the ticket!!

very awesome, thanks a lot!! :D :D :D
JYoung
02-22-2006, 04:49 AM
Sweet, that'll come in handy. :)

Now if only someone would invent a script to mirror clusters in Maya....
harnain
02-23-2006, 07:57 AM
If u are using 3dsmax then mirrormorphs script is very useful and mirrors the other half beautifully. I don't remember from where i got that may be.. scriptspot.com .

Just let me know if there is'nt then i'll try to mail it.
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