Animation

HDK object null who's position is "driven" by another object using a lookup table of transforms. Seeks to mimic the Maya "set driven key" functionality without the need for Chops and/or expressions. Handy for character setups.

Compiled for H8.0.383 source code provided.

Version 1.2 of a new idea for how to capture and deform characters. The best description I have for this comes courtesy of Mario it's inter-bone bridging -- a directed, cross-spatial component. It augments the concept of capture regions by being able to work *between* the implicit spaces of all (local) capture regions.

Or put another way it captures by defining surface features, and attempts to create bone driven animation without the need for weight painting.

Oh and this one also comes with help :)

Added some extra features, cleaned out redundant ones, and general fixed bugs.

New improved HDK version of the mean value coordinate system. This allows you to specify a coordinate system using an arbitary mesh (taken from a siggraph paper by Tao Ju, Scott Schaefer, Joe Warren )

Windows compile only but source code provided. Please feel free to modify. Use at own risk, let me know if you find bugs and I'll do what I can to fix them.

It now comes as capture and deform nodes for realtime speed.

Ok it's back. Version 2. Having looked at this a bit more closely it turned out to be a bit trickier than just using the lattice sop, it now uses frames of reference created at each point so as to deal with rotation as well as translation. The full story is on odforce. Anyway I made some changes and here are the results.

Skin Wrap is an otl that uses a couple of custom vex sops to mimick the 3DS Max skin wrap deformer with radius painting. (Sesi please note how much easier this would be if we could export the paint handle to an hda)

An HDK sop for parenting points and prims to objects. Its a multiparm sop that allows you to attach groups of points/prims etc. to animating objects.

Re-Compiled for windows H8.0.508 includes source code. Fixed a bug when more than 10 parents were used. Unfortunately this will break hip files using the previous version, so stuff will have to be re-captured.