Hi, this is very much a beginner question, there probably is a easy solution for this.

I'm trying to animate a cell (a slightly deformed sphere) into getting 5 or 6 tentacles that will bend into different directions.
I can do that using the morphing tool, now my question is about how I can randomize this transformation so that I can have 50 or so cells transform from their spherical state to the one with tentacles without them all looking identical.

I tried to find a tutorial describing a solution for this, but have been unsuccessful.

Any help would be appreciated,
cheers,
Keelboat

Sometimes simple .hip explains problem better!!!

If you want to have the cells as individually animatable OBJ level entities, then you could have a random function in the sops somewhere that uses opdigits(“..”) as a part of its seed. This way you can copy&paste the obj node and each copy will be different.

If you just want to copy/instance a lot of them, then you should use copy stamping to get the individual random seeds for the copies.

There should be a lot of examples of the latter floating around, so attached is an example of the former.