Exporting mutiple objects with lattice?
by Joshua Walker · in Artist Corner · 09/02/2007 (11:57 am) · 4 replies
I have a small problem.
I have a character model I've made, and I need her eyes to be movable using a bone. The problem is both eyes are separate objects, on top of this I'm also using a lattice to conform the eyes to the face.
I have a picture here.
The cool thing about the lattice is I can move the bone target around and they eyes follow as if there were spheres. However, at first blush, it seems I have to export my model as a complete mesh, and the eyes have to be joined to the body.
The problem is when I join the eyes to the body, they "inflate" into spheres and bulge outside her head. Also they don't move anymore.
I have the parenting goes something like this. Eyebone -> eyes -> lattice -> headbone.
Does anyone have a good solution for this? I need the eyes flat, but they also need to be articulated properly.
I have a character model I've made, and I need her eyes to be movable using a bone. The problem is both eyes are separate objects, on top of this I'm also using a lattice to conform the eyes to the face.
I have a picture here.
The cool thing about the lattice is I can move the bone target around and they eyes follow as if there were spheres. However, at first blush, it seems I have to export my model as a complete mesh, and the eyes have to be joined to the body.
The problem is when I join the eyes to the body, they "inflate" into spheres and bulge outside her head. Also they don't move anymore.
I have the parenting goes something like this. Eyebone -> eyes -> lattice -> headbone.
Does anyone have a good solution for this? I need the eyes flat, but they also need to be articulated properly.
#2
09/02/2007 (5:25 pm)
The problem is that the eye isn't uniformly flat nor is it spherical. I like the texture idea. Is there a way I can do this is showtool to something? I don't mean to be a pain, bit it's rather hypercritical that her eyes are able to move. She also has to talk, but that's easy because I can move the vertexes in her mouth and tongue. 
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