Bake Modifer Animation onto Bones?

[eek]

So your talking about facial morphs to bones right? I'm guessing something like this:

first off you need a bone or point for each vert

(
local pointArray =#()

slidertime = -1 -- bind pose (frame you skin the mesh too)

with animate on
(
for i = 1 to selection[1].verts.count do
(
p = point()
p.pos = selection[1].verts[i].pos
append pointArray p
)
)
with animate on
(
for f = animationRange.start to animationRange.end do
(
slidertime = f

for p = 1 to pointArray.count do
(
pointArray[p].pos = selection[1].verts[p].pos
)
)
)
)

this is the basics, you could do more too, like building a hierachy etc - i would do something like append an array as a paramblock in the scene with the points/bones.You could then check in the first place if this array is populated with the points/bones and animate them. If not populate it.

You'd have to do this:

generate all the animations for the points/bones
blow away the morph animation
skin to the points/bones

[Jynks]

yea.. i have been doing it manualy sorta like that... but not a scripter.. was woudnering if you have any other advise on how to script this.

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