Soft Body Dynamics - Animating Fat - Help needed

[Ls3D]

Flex is cool with a softselection and the right settings, but if you are in max 4.x then there is a gizmo you can put at the end of an IK chain (end effector) that would be a cleaner solution because you won't need a big geo pipe full of softselections and flex modz with varying weights.

This requires some more rigging but results will be manageable and the geo pipe will be smokin.

Plugs,... well I'm sure you've seen the Absolute Character Tools link on the mother page,.. some secondary motion can be viewed in the demo movies.

Reactor,.. yes & also spendy. Sorry I don't know what the springy thingy is called in max 4 because I'm a regisitered 3.1 user delaying that upgrade expense.

Do you edit poly in max 4, I have a few ?'s

-Shea
www.Ls3D.com

[Joel Hooks]

like joint angle? I need something for jiggling fat more than bulges at angles.

Or are we talking about different things?

I polymodel in Max 4.2, yes.

What's your questions? PM me if you like.

[Ls3D]

Nope not joint or bulge angle, but a springy gizmo put at the end of an IK chain. In a recent 'please upgrade' demo of max 4 reactor, et all the guy (michael janov) wired his bones (inside a pony tail), put this gizmoid on the end and when he keyed a little head movement the gizzy added some secondary motion. I was thinking you could use this approach in the flabby area of your model, with some new bones or spline based hooks into the mesh.

I'm sure another max user will chime in with the goods,..

My EDIT POLY question, is when you slice and subdivide are there extra verts produced at the invisible egde? Or are there features in the DLO to divide properly?

When I sub-d in max 3.1, I end up cleaning up these verts and sewing up new quad faces - a real pain in the arse.

-Shea
www.Ls3D.com

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