Joints with falloff workflow

#1

What is the exact workflow of binding joints to a mesh using fields without baking weights?

#2

I rarely need technical help with C4D nowadays, but I’m stuck with this one.
Can someone help me with this?

#3

It doesn’t work. You’ll need technical help.

I can’t get it to work - I hope someone else can enlighten us.

#4

use a freeze layer on top of your field in the fields list.

#5

I copied these instructions - https://help.maxon.net/us/index.html#OFALLOFFOBJECT

Can’t get it to work at all.

Sorry @AdsovonMelk - not trying to hijack your thread. I think we’re in the same boat.

#6

Freeze layer doesn’t work either.
It seems like a bug to me.
I’ve just done my rig using FFD driven by joints.
It’s ok Kaptain_Kubrick, we’re all here to share.

#7

indeed, there’s a bug in r20 and r21… sorry, i didn’t test it. it should work as easily as adding a field to your joint and putting a freeze layer on top. you can work around that bug by making vertex map tags, having a field control the vertex map and dragging that vertex map into the vertex map slot in the weight tags joints list. not very elegant, but it works.
fieldsweight.c4d (209.6 KB)

#8

It doesn’t seem to work if you want to place your falloffs in the hierarchy.

Sorry - I can’t see where you have placed the vertex maps so that the weight map can read them?

Thanks.

#9

in the weight tag. select a joint the weight tags list, and at the bottom there‘s a maps slot.

#10

Ok - good to know.

Still no luck with putting them in the hierachy though - which is a little annoying.

Cheers.

#11

you can stop trying, it’s a bug.

#12

Thank You guys for this investigation.
Fields have some bugs, especially in terms of refresh and priority, but this is completely new to me.