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plasmaworX
03-17-2008, 12:39 PM
Hi community,

i am having problems deforming splines:
This is a Tennis Racket I'm modeling (NDA requires some blurring), and for
testing I'm using a FFD deformer with a restriction tag.
I'm certain that the selection which is linked in the tag is 'pure', yet deformation comes to
this:
http://www.plasmaworx.de/stuff/strings_def.jpg

here's another screenshot with the corresponding point selection:

http://www.plasmaworx.de/stuff/strings_rest.jpg


Can you give me some pointers how to beat this problem?
Or, how to not have the problem by deforming the 'strings'-spline a better way?

Thanks in advance!
spedler
03-17-2008, 08:10 PM
Could you deform the points making up the strings by using the Magnet tool set to a bell or dome falloff?
plasmaworX
03-17-2008, 08:33 PM
I need some kind of deformer, it's going to be animated, and PLA is not an option...
tcastudios
03-17-2008, 08:51 PM
MoGraph "Displace Deformer" or DiTools "DiShaper" maybe?

Cheers
Lennart
Horganovski
03-17-2008, 10:16 PM
I think your FFD needs more subdivisions in the Y direction to be get a smoother 'step' to the deformation. Unless the strings need to deform at different points at different times, I'd just create a morph for it directly on the splines themselves, using the magnet or brush tool as suggested. If it needs to react to a ball bouncing on different parts of it, I'd use a displace deformer with it's falloff attached to the ball object as Lennart suggested.

HTH.
Cheers,
Brian
plasmaworX
03-18-2008, 09:15 AM
sounds cool, will try!

thanx so far!
plasmaworX
03-18-2008, 10:09 AM
problem solved (for now).
the spline had intermediate points which obviously are not affected by the
selection, and thus not by the deformer either...
AAAron
03-18-2008, 11:02 AM
problem solved (for now).
the spline had intermediate points which obviously are not affected by the
selection, and thus not by the deformer either...

Thanks for sharing.
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