hey Steve,

HTat's a very good idea! Thanks. I have the test file loaded into my webspace. here's the link http://www.3dde.com/inflate_test.zip [3dde.com]

Hi rony,

You merged the two spheres onto each other & set them to be the inflation target so the poly sphere was trying to inflate but also trying to “inflate” onto itself thus causing a much longer cook time. Also, you should use point group for the target geometry instead of primitive group.

I have a new hip file here [pointy.tv].

Have fun!

Cheers!
steven

Thanks again Steven for the file. It's much faster indeed. It goes haywire at certain times but now it's all a matter of tweaking. Thanks a LOT!

I'm done with the rig. you can see it here [3dde.com] it's the rigging reel link.
Thanks a lot for everyone who helped me on this.

Cheers!

So how far did you get with the muscles? I don't think of that was in your rigging demo reel?

the muscles work great. They're disabled in the reel bccause I couldn't capture the deformations in real time so I put them In the flat book. Here's a pic.

Been away for a while working on other stuff but I'm back and I have a walk cycle update of my groll, you can check it out here [3dde.com].