i have a mesh that is pretty much just a 3d porabola, and i have point sops that animate it on the Y axis using sin curves. i used a metaball later farther down, in order to refine the shape that i wanted. The meta ball is in the center of the mesh, and is tranlsted down to where it only goes about halfway up. for some reason, the area just above where the metaball effects is effected much less by the sin curves than area above and below it. should the metaballs have this effect on the mesh?

Are you using a Magnet SOP with the Metaball? Sounds like the Metaball is pushing the points down or up, offsetting the effect of the Point SOP. Kind of hard to tell without seeing the file though

Cheers,

Peter B

yes, theres a magnet sop causing the metaball to influence the geometry's shape