Meshsmooth Morphing/Skinning

[Ls3D]

I think this will work, why don't you try it and let us know.

-Shea
www.Ls3D.com

:cool:

[fez]

Sorry, I should have made it more obvious that I did try...and failed :). That was why I posted.

[Neox]

hmmm i never tried this but i would build my stack like this

select mesh
meshmooth (itereartions=1)
morper
meshsmooth(iterations=1)
skin
editable Poly

but you have to use a smoothed version of you model to make it a morph target :)

[Grayson]

Neox has it right. Although I usually just do one meshsmooth.

My stacks usually look like this.

Meshsmooth (viewport: 0 - render: 1 or 2)
Morpher
Skin
Editable Poly

[fez]

Thanks but none of the solutions offered so far seem to work. I am not sure it CAN work given the linear nature of the stack.

[Neox]

i guess this is an user failer
i tested it with a simple object, and it worked really fine

[mv]

yeah Neox is just right. Try again :)

[fez]

Hi Neox. Thanks for following this thread. I really appreciate it. It very well might be user failer but I don't think so. Have you animated with Maya's hierarchal subds? Do you understand the functionality I am trying to mimic in MAX?

Having the morpher above the skin modifier in the stack overpowers the Skin deformations...right? I don't understand how your stack overcomes MAX's linear evalution of deformations. Again, for convenience I want to attach the base cage of a character to bones (meshsmooth level 0) and then be able to farther refine deformations (for instance facial morphs) with all available points from the subdivided mesh (meshsmooth levels 1 and 2).

[Neox]

oh i'm very sorry, no i know what you mean, and you're absolutely right, i didn't build the stack as i told before
i made

mesh select
meshsmooth
skin
meshsmooth
morper
epoly

argh yes it won't work with a different stack (morpher on top)
hmmm nevver cared about that because my morphers are always below skin :surprised

[fez]

OK, thanks for trying, Neox. I guess the hierarchal advantages of subds in Max ARE limited to modeling. More high marks for Maya. It is a shame because it seems to me that the Max developers have already done the R and D...now it is just a simple matter of implementation! Maybe Max 5.5?

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