I'm trying to create a cartoony eye rig. My idea is to bring in Lattice.shp from sops, which i have captured with my skeleton, and use that to deform my Base.shp. The issue is my lattice simply isn't deforming. I even tried packing the rest state separately in a LatticeRest.shp to try use that as the rest geometry but it still isn't deforming. I can't figure out what i'm doing wrong, would love some pointers. :P

I'm far from an Apex wizard , but I checked your scene and think I see part of the problem.

The lattice deformer can't handle 2 separate "bound" deformers , it can only handle a single connected bound deformer , like a regular lattice cage.

So when I disable the second bounding box ( after the "bound" SOP ), at least the Left X part of the eye deforms. And when I disable the whole "Foreach" block so only the "bound" SOP is active , it creates a single bound and deforms both X shapes.

I don't know if the circle part of the eyes should be visible or deform as well , but maybe this is a step in the right direction.

But I attached the scene where only a single X deforms.

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I'm far from an Apex wizard , but I checked your scene and think I see part of the problem.

The lattice deformer can't handle 2 separate "bound" deformers , it can only handle a single connected bound deformer , like a regular lattice cage.

So when I disable the second bounding box ( after the "bound" SOP ), at least the Left X part of the eye deforms. And when I disable the whole "Foreach" block so only the "bound" SOP is active , it creates a single bound and deforms both X shapes.

I don't know if the circle part of the eyes should be visible or deform as well , but maybe this is a step in the right direction.

But I attached the scene where only a single X deforms.

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ahhh i see. that clears things up thanks alot for your help!