Soft modification tool with multiple inputs

[joiec...@gmail.com]

Hi there,

I need to use the soft modification deformer in a procedural geometry made with MASH.

So, the tool works perfect for my needs when I select a vertex and apply it. but I would need to use it procedurally, so it works when I substitute the geometry with another similar one (kind of changing a low polygon version with the high polygon one).

That works perfect if I apply the tool globally to the object instead of a vertex, so when I change the geometry, it still works.

But I really need control on where it affects, so I would need the good thing of selecting the vertex I need, but the good thing of applying it globally.

So I thought the vertex connected to the deformer would appear in the coonection editor somehow..., but NOT.

Do you know of any method to make that work?, Any workaround?

Thanks in advance.

[stephenkmann]

Does not placing the the "fallOffCenter" X Y and Z not do what you want? 

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[joie]

Yes, it does the job with ONE place. You can't put several centers for the deformation without actually selecting mesh components (which breaks my need for a procedural approach)

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[stephenkmann]

Sorry I think I'm confused as to what you are actually doing.

 I thought you were using the component selection to find the placement. but then just applying the deformer to the entire geo(s)

Can one softMod actually have multiple centers?

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[joie]

If you select several vertex, then YES, it can have multiple centers.

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[desig...@gmail.com]

Maybe you need to apply the deformers globally, but either paint weights, or use the membership tool.

R

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[Steve Davy]

Could put the deformer on a proxy object and apply that as a wrap deformer to your target geo?

May depend how precisely you need to select vertices.

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[joiec...@gmail.com]

As far as I know, the wrap deformer also works on the selected mesh, if the mesh changes, the wrap doesn't work anymore. so the problem remains the same.

[Steve Davy]

You'd need to put your new geometry inside the wrap's deformer set (a simple one click step in the relationship editor).

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[joie]

How could I forgot that? O_o

Thanks! LOL

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[stephenkmann]

also, in 2022 you can use * as your tag set. and it should include all components

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[joie]

I will have to try that with various inputs, or may be use a choice node for the inputs and see if that still works.

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