MAX's Skin and animation controls

[coboman]

There is a very nice feature in Max that gives you total control of the deformation when skinning. It is a little tricky to use, though.

Within the Skin Modifier there are three different deformers: Join, Bulge (which are not that great) and Morph Angle (this is the stuff).

With Morph Angle you can modify the geometry via Edit Mesh and apply the deformation when a bone reaches certain angle. Check out your manual in the Skin Modifier topic for more info.

By the way, the skin modifier by itself is incredibly powerful if you apply the correct vertices weights. The Morph Angle deformer should be used only when all the vertices of the skin have been asigned their correct weight and deform nicely, to enhance the effect.

[NowhereMan]

Thank you very much man!!! That is a nice feature, that will help me to skin my character more "realistically".:)

:beer:

[NowhereMan]

Well, after a few tests i have to tell you that i couldn't get the thing to work out properly. :shrug:

I follow the instructions on the help file, and when i delete the edit mesh modifier (after adding the morph from the stack). The mesh doesnt deform if i rotate the bone that i assigned the morphing. It seems to me a little buggy bcuz it worked the first time i tried and never worked again. And i repeated all the correct steps again. Can anyone help me out with this?? :scream: :hmm:

[coboman]

I told you it was tricky to use.

The secret is in the angle.

Each morph target has an angle assigned to it (that is displayed with the name of the target). This angle is given the moment you click the button to assign the target.

What probably happened to you (because it happened several times to me) is that you are not clicking the assign button in the right frame of the animation, either for the first target, or for the second.

Look at the name and the angle assigned, the angles for each target should be different, if they are the same, that's the reason is not working.

[NowhereMan]

hmmmm...:hmm:

I thought it could be made anytime, not only during an animation. Like u could rotate the bones in the viewport to that assigned angle and the mesh would respond deforming. Despite of this, it is still very useful.:D

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