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Corth

06-07-2003, 06:00 PM

Reading through the tutorial on this in max5, it's telling me to make a copy of the object for as many of the morph's I'll need. Is there any simpler way of doing this? I like the K.I.S. approach (keep it simple) is there anyway I can do the morphing with just the one head in the file?

I've been thinking of exporting the morph's that I want, then importing them into one file, then applying the morph modifyer, if that'll work I might go that route (if it'll work).

Can anyone enlighten me? If you want to see the model I'm morphing, you can visit my www link, it's in the art->3D section.

neversong

06-07-2003, 06:58 PM

hello.

in fact, morpher targets are not that complicated at all.
(I guess, you know it's ok to delete the morpher targets afterward- you don't have to keep all of them in the scene)

it's pretty much straight forward. very simple, but just a bit of time consuming depending on how many expressions you want.

or I think , you can use bones too.

but when think about the result, morphing is not that much of pain at all.

the first morph I did took me 3~4 days. I felt so sick of it. :)
but, the result was sweet.

Corth

06-07-2003, 07:42 PM

Ahhh, Thank you neversong! I actually didn't know you could delete them afterwards... I'll have to re-read the tut to see if it says that, because I don't remember reading that at all :shrug:

JeT

06-08-2003, 06:18 PM

Heres a nice option if you're up for the setup time

A thread in the Character Rigging section about facial animation setups... (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20832)

yeah i hate morph targets. No patence for them i guess.

Corth

06-09-2003, 07:28 AM

Thanks for that link, I'll have to keep an eye on that thread :)

Tom Lunzer

06-09-2003, 10:55 PM

Here is another tutorial on Morph targets.

Might be of use.

http://trans.voila.fr/ano?systran_lp=fr_en&systran_id=Voila-fr&systran_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.3d-station.com%2FTutoriaux%2Ftutoriaux.php%3Fid%3D77

BTW if you go back to the trans.voila homepage you can find all kind of cool (and free) Max stuff.

http://trans.voila.fr/ano?anolg=65544&anourl=http%3A//www.vocanson.com/

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