CGTalk - moprhing in 3dsmax5

dmccar

01-13-2003, 12:52 PM

hi this is my first post using this forum, I am currently working on a project to visualise a componet for a new web server. The client has recently come back to me and has asked me to animate a sequece of shapes morphing to form into different shapes.
i.e he wants to morph from a circle shape to a square to a triangle to a hexagaon shape.

I have thought about setting up morph targets to do this; however I know that the vertex count on your models has to be exaclty the same as the object that you are morphing to. This already begins to present a problem with some of the shapes mentioned.

Can anyone suggest a good way to go about doing this.

thanks

gORDEK

01-13-2003, 01:11 PM

if this thing is truly 2d, shown from the front, why don't use flash and then export to what format u need?? in flash u can morph between vector shapes... hope, that i have helped you...

dmccar

01-13-2003, 02:06 PM

hello there i thought that was the way to go early on in the project; however the client liked the look of the 3d model so unfortunately it has to be done in 3d

Jayk2k

01-14-2003, 03:51 PM

Render out your 3D shapes as images, and use a 2D morpher to warp between them. Elastic Reality used to be a great one, but I haven't seen it as it's own application in quite some time. I think it's now a part of Avid DS.

There should be a few free or shareware apps available out there.

dmccar

01-14-2003, 04:13 PM

thanks for your comments, as the project is being done in max I would prefer to do the morphing in max. I've started to look at using splines then use the morph modifer and add an extrude at the top of the stack.

edaddy

01-14-2003, 07:48 PM

i could send u an example max file

but it's very easy to do, just make the harder shape morph into the easier one, draw the circle, extrude, copy, move verts to resemble a triangle, apply morph mod.

dmccar

01-15-2003, 09:08 AM

it would be interesting to see how you set up your scene, if you have a max file send it over and I'll take a look at it.

:beer:

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