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Using Xpresso to Pipe an Animated Greyscale Texture into a Vertex Map
Posted: 26 June 2018 09:07 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hey

I saw an excellent Xpresso setup a while back to send animated textures into vertex maps to really art direct deformations and cloth rips

It transferred a Shader Effector’s weight influence on a Matrix Object over to the vertex map weight. It was a bit slow and heavy, but once a sim was cached and the Xpresso was disabled, the results would look great

Here’s a link to the thread - unfortunately a lot of the images posted on it are no longer hosted, but hopefully you get the idea - http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1202871

I’d like to try and figure this one out again. I understand the latest Xparticles has a similar feature but I’d prefer to see it running in Xpresso for uses outside of deformations and rips

Looking forward to hearing back

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Hayden

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Posted: 26 June 2018 01:50 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Hi Hayden,

First: Please post only tutorial related question in the Tutorial Forum, Thanks.
This link is for information purposes only:
https://www.cineversity.com/forums/viewthread/475/

Here is a file were I hope it does what you describe:

Screen capture and scene file
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/vjR8yc91br1WZbO0lkKB0YoZS1qDniqjsoNKulenoEZ

The screen capture shows how to adapt this to an new object.

All the best


Edited: fixed link June 27 2018

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Posted: 26 June 2018 08:13 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Hello Sassi

You replied to my message earlier after it was moved to the correct area (apologies for the mistake)

Unfortunately you didn’t provide a correct link for me to open or view what we were discussing: https://www.cineversity.com/forums/viewthread/2877/

If you could correct that it would be greatly appreciated

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Hayden

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Posted: 26 June 2018 09:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Update, link is fixed, I thought you meant the first link. I got it.

Hi Hayden,

I checked, it was a correct link, as it is a thread exclusively to inform how this forum should be used to keep it easily searchable for all our members.
However, your current membership states “Free”, hence no write-access to the Q&A, only read.
So, either the entry is incorrect, then please use the Contact Us option in the lower right corner, or you just have not the access like full member would have.
Anyway, not as a rule nor promise, but often I create an answer if it seems to be of common interest. So, I created an XPresso file and a screen capture for you.

If there are no given reasons nor options to correct your status, than I guess that there are limitations for now.

We have discussed things in the Q&A forum before, so I’m not certain what is going on, I hope the admins can shed some light on it.

I hope you find the screen capture and scene file helpful.
My best wishes to use the knowledge you can gain with the offers we have for you.

This was supposed to be the link:
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/FzZlUwvYxbnwGqIEXuEjYZAXUcSLD4gvY9gJCQZv2fN

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