3DSMAX Eye rig question

[WGerick]

My first guess would be, to use the texture coordinates. Your diffuse map channel in the material editor has UV - Offset and angles. You could wire them to the rotation values of a dummy object. However, you should think about your UV - Layout. Since these offsets manipulate the position of the texture in UV space, you may run into problems like distortion, depending on your UVW Map and Unwrap UVW.

[Greyfox]

I'll go and try to do a wire parameter on the UV offset of the texture material

But would it be great if we can contol a Planar UVW Gizmo and just link it to a bone or to a control dummy? it would cetainly get rid of the stretching on the edges of the eyeballs. I did try and wire the Planar Gizmo and all I was able to achieve was control the Left/right/up/down motion and not the rotation ... so it still resulted in some stretching.

Thanks .. I'll give your technique a try :)

[scrimski]

Wire the gizmo to a dummy, align the dummy to the eye and use a look-at constraint for that dummy.

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