collapsing the morpher deformer?? [Archive]

mitra4u

22-10-2006, 02:38 AM

<img alt="crying" src="..//forum/smileys/topic_crying.gif" align="absmiddle" height="18" width="18" border="0"> I have a human 3D model in which it has body mesh object with separate head object. Both are rigged under one skeleton bone system. I made several copies of head object for the facial expression through Morpher.  In rendering  body object and head object look separated and texture continuty is broken (as both are two different mesh object). In Maya we can collapse the vertex of Head to the Body mesh without disturbing the  blend shapes work. It  shows no problem with the continuityof mesh.  Can we do the same operation in 3D studio Max?<img alt="crying" src="..//forum/smileys/topic_crying.gif" align="absmiddle" height="18" width="18" border="0">

admin

24-10-2006, 05:50 PM

Try this: 
Select your head...it has morpher right? Now add edit poly above the morpher. press attach and attach the body with head. So now they are one mesh. Stack is right now : -  base > Morpher > Editpoly. Now do your weld vertex between body and head to remove seam(in new editpoly level). add skin on top of editpoly....do skin...and enjoy.
Final stack: basehead> Morpher > editpoly(attach head and body + vertex weld)>Skin

mitra4u

24-10-2006, 07:03 PM

Hi Susanta,  Thanks. it is working fine.<img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0"> regards TC mitra<img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0">

admin

25-10-2006, 04:59 PM

Great! Now listen. As because of Skin and moepher both depend on CPU instead of GPU. It is not a nice idea to keep a extra member in your stack?in this case this new edit poly. So we need some clean up. It effectively means now we have to merge our edit in morpher level. So first delete every modifier from your head object (Like skin or turbo smooth). We need only BaseHead> Morpher > editpoly (where you have weld information).
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Now for every morpher target channel we have to give it a 100 value (when other channel are 0), then go to editpoly level. Take snapshot of the mesh. It will merge your head and body data and create a joint mesh for every target. This is the new target which includes face and body as well. Then we need to collapse the main head (or convert to poly). Add a new morpher. Pick all those new snapshot targets. Now your stack is BaseHead>Morpher. But again you have to do this process for every channel. What the Heck! Why you are paying this software company?
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Cool, we can easily batch our work to save time:
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From maxscript menu > select new script
Now type following maxscript (You are smart enough to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V J). Select your head (with only morpher and editpoly). Form that new script window menu, File > Evalute all. It will batch your target extraction process. If you want to understand the script I also add some comment to it. Cheers!
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 21.0pt 42.0pt 63.0pt 84.0pt 105.0pt 126.0pt 147.0pt 168.0pt 189.0pt 210.0pt 231.0pt 252.0pt 273.0pt 294.0pt 315.0pt 336.0pt 357.0pt 378.0pt 399.0pt 420.0pt 441.0pt 462.0pt 483.0pt 504.0pt 525.0pt 546.0pt 20.0cm 588.0pt 609.0pt 630.0pt 651.0pt 672.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" ="Msonormal">        append channelInUse i --- collect channel number<O:P></O:P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 21.0pt 42.0pt 63.0pt 84.0pt 105.0pt 126.0pt 147.0pt 168.0pt 189.0pt 210.0pt 231.0pt 252.0pt 273.0pt 294.0pt 315.0pt 336.0pt 357.0pt 378.0pt 399.0pt 420.0pt 441.0pt 462.0pt 483.0pt 504.0pt 525.0pt 546.0pt 20.0cm 588.0pt 609.0pt 630.0pt 651.0pt 672.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" ="Msonormal">        WM3_MC_SetValue headMeshMod i 0.0<O:P></O:P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 21.0pt 42.0pt 63.0pt 84.0pt 105.0pt 126.0pt 147.0pt 168.0pt 189.0pt 210.0pt 231.0pt 252.0pt 273.0pt 294.0pt 315.0pt 336.0pt 357.0pt 378.0pt 399.0pt 420.0pt 441.0pt 462.0pt 483.0pt 504.0pt 525.0pt 546.0pt 20.0cm 588.0pt 609.0pt 630.0pt 651.0pt 672.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" ="Msonormal">    WM3_MC_SetValue headMeshMod q 100.0 --- set the value to 100.0<O:P></O:P>
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