Pin Points

[rray]

A modeling helper plugin which I've been meaning to share in 2009 or so and forgot

Installs the command "Pin Points" in the Constrain menu on the right. It freezes/pins the selected subcomponents. Then they can't be moved until the command is called again.

There's a displayInfo in the viewport that 1. lets you know something is frozen / 2. lets you set a falloff so points near the freeze region are a little frozen as well which makes the transition smoother / 3. set smoothness / 4. show or hide the blueish effect of the frozen region in the viewport

let me know if there's bugs!

[Draise]

Like modeling masking!? WOAH.

[mc_axe]

Very helpful, i hope it works vs move-proportional tool!

[anyheart]

Very cool tool,works on Curves and polygon

[rray]

Nice, never planned to have it work it for curves, just for polygons... but because of the generic SI object model it works for anything that's made out of points.

[opoppopopp]

just use it today for a small work, thank U

btw. pin by weight maps will be more intuitive...and quick...

[rray]

Hey thanks for using it! It sound good. I'll check if it's easy to make

[opoppopopp]

Hey thanks for using it! It sound good. I'll check if it's easy to make

IF
"press w, paint some wight, move other points, smooth some weight, move a little more, click a button to turn off pin" wow

Thanks again!

[Talik]

Would be nice if it could freeze the bone's and deformer's deformation. I would use it to move the bones after the weights are painted

[opoppopopp]

Would be nice if it could freeze the bone's and deformer's deformation. I would use it to move the bones after the weights are painted

You can adjust Static_KineState property of your deformer(bone) object, to a compensate value, to adjust deformer position after envelop.

Envelop operator only need deformer's transformation value(so that everything in XSI, can be used as deformer, not only bone object)
But not the transform information in Kinematic node, but the Static_KineState node.

[opoppopopp]

Would be nice if it could freeze the bone's and deformer's deformation. I would use it to move the bones after the weights are painted

This is a better explanation of Static KineState:
http://web.archive.org/web/201104040029 ... chives/209

[rray]

There's also the menu command "set reference pose" that resets the mesh to the base pose without moving the bones.

(probably it modifies the Static KineState internally)