New Cage Deformer

[Ahmidou]

Here is a new cage defomer that is giving a better deformation than the factory one based on this paper:
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~ylipman/pmvc/pmvc.htm
this workflow is temporary removed:
"To use it, just conect the initPMVC compound in the modeling region, and the PMVC one in the animation region, both on the deformed object.
The cage must be triangulated! .. but once your happy with the deformation the initPMVC compound may be frozen , and then cage can be quadrangulated.
The only limitation is that all the point of the deformee must be inside the cage."

Edit: updated with the script version for the coordinates generation. I've also package everything in a command in the deformation menu.
For this version, the cage don't need to be triangulated
Also you have to freeze the deformation if you want edit the cage as you cant overwrite an ICE attribute that is in use

Cheers!

[Bullit]

Thanks

[hidalgo]

Hello

tried on 2014, but init ice node stays red and doesnt work, used polymesh both as deformed mesh and deformer.

Best

[Ahmidou]

Hi, sorry for the late reply. The init compound won't work with the current Softimage version, I should have check this before releasing it.
Anyway, I've updated it with a Python script to generate the coordinates.
Check the first post for the details.

Happy new year!

[rray]

Hi
I'm not getting a menu entry in Modify>Deform
(with the updated addon)
Happy 2014 to all!

[hidalgo]

@Ahmidou

thank you for the fix will defenetly try it

Happy new year!

[Ahmidou]

It should be OK now!!!!

[rray]

It tried to write the compounds to a directory
"E:\XSI_WORKGROUP\ICE\Data\Compounds\"
but after editing it in the xsiaddon file to
"\Data\Compounds\",

it works!
** is there a way so the script could easily test for if the deformed mesh isn't completely inside the cage?

Thanks for sharing this!

[Ahmidou]

** is there a way so the script could easily test for if the deformed mesh isn't completely inside the cage?
Thanks for sharing this!

No worries, I'll add the feature

[danyargici]

Despite trying for the best part of an hour I have been unable to get this to work!

I've fixed the path in the addon. I've tried triangulated and untriangulated geometry. Nothing!

Anyone care to share some pointers, or perhaps a scene?

[rray]

This (link) is the addon I tried (it has the paths fixed) .. needed an app restart. What I tried and what worked was: object fully inside the cage, and the "sparse" checkbox ticked, otherwise I would get a crumpled mesh. Used a quad mesh.

[danyargici]

Thanks, I'll give it another go later today.

[Ahmidou]

Hi Dan,
Would you be on 2015 by any chances? If yes, I've just posted a scene with the 100% ICE setup on the softimage list.
Please not that in this case the cage have to be triangulated.

I hope you'll get it working!
Cheers

[mattmos]

Hi Ahmidou,
I've had a little trawl through the mailing list but can't find the ice setup, any chance you could post a link here?
Thanks!
Matt

[danyargici]

Hi Ahmidou, you have a syntax error in your plugin which is preventing it from working.

There is an Activeprimitive (lower case p) around line 60 which needs fixing. All working now (with the version rray posted that also has the fixed hard-coded paths in the addon)

Dan

[Ahmidou]

Thanks Dan, I'll fix that on my side.(weird that it was working for me)
About the scene I posted on the list, it's waiting for approval, because of the it's size.
it's also 22Kb bigger than the allowed file size in this forum :/

I'll try to reduce it's size tonight.