problem layering secondary animation (Syflex, jiggle...)

[Christophe]

Hello,
I would like to make secondary animation for elephant ears, so I made a low poly cloth deformed by syflex,
now I want to drive high poly mesh with the low poly animated,
but the high poly mesh has already an enveloppe and an ICE tree for jiggling.

So I tried cage deforming the high poly mesh with the syflex animated low poly, but it causes I think "additive reference motion"... -> the ears are deplaced behind the elephant.
Maybe it's a "priority" problem in construction modes...

I joined a simplified scene focused on the ears. Any help will be greatly appreciated !
Sorry for this frenchy english.

Chris

[Mathaeus]

Hello,
I would like to make secondary animation for elephant ears, so I made a low poly cloth deformed by syflex,
now I want to drive high poly mesh with the low poly animated,
but the high poly mesh has already an enveloppe and an ICE tree for jiggling.

So I tried cage deforming the high poly mesh with the syflex animated low poly, but it causes I think "additive reference motion"... -> the ears are deplaced behind the elephant.
Maybe it's a "priority" problem in construction modes...

I joined a simplified scene focused on the ears. Any help will be greatly appreciated !
Sorry for this frenchy english.

Chris

I think you can get the blend, instead the additive, by using the "cascade" of very simple ICE trees. First one goes bellow both operators, it's just for saving the static point position ( something like get>self.pointposition> set > self.MyPointPosition_a ). Next one goes in between operators, it first saves the result of operator as another custom attribute let's say, self.MyPointPosition_b. Then in next row, it's calling attribute from first ICE tree, setting the actual point position to static one.
Finally, in third ICE three, above both operators, you're mixing the actual point position and 'self.MyPointPosition_b', using weight map, as 'Blend' of 'linear interpolate' node.

[Christophe]

Mathaeus, I think I understand the concept of your method, I'm not really an ICE specialist, but I will try to follow your instructions, thank you !