Automated Way Of Creating Mesh/texture Morphs Between Changing Geometry, At 10fps

[tandefelt]

Hi,

1) I would like to know how to create an easy semi or fully automated way of morphing between multiple geometries so that a mesh/texture morph is done, lets say 20-30 times a second, (meaning, new geometry/texture loaded/morphed to) at each frame/once per frame change. I am looking for an automated process for doing this, not having to go to manual morph edits of individual parameters in geometry).

2) OR:
Is there a way to create an animation which shows a different geometry/texture at each frame, lets say 20-30fps, (so that each separate model and its texture shows for a duration of one frame only), end result being an exportable animation file, which contains new geometry 20-30 fps, resulting? The geometry I have can be equipped with corner markers/geometry, enabling a type of a spatial sync when imported to Maya, even if object geometry/textures in the middle vary/move etc..

Thanks for any advice in advance,
Best,

Marko, NYC

[gmask]

The problem with the first option is that the geometry needs to have the same topography or it won't morph as you might expect plus this will not morph textures.

For the B option depending on how many objects.. you could just keyframe the visibility otherwise do some mel scripting to turn them on and off depending on the frame

[tandefelt]

Hi,
1) That is what I thought (I have some experience, but this is a relatively specific nice challenge)..
2) Sounds like, unless there are other suggestions by others, that I will go with option , unless, again, it makes the file too heavey, even after optimization etc, so that it is hard to import/play back in the end platform (unity), suspension of belief/disbelief is the key, audience does not naturally have to know what was done..
Thank you for your reply,
Best.

Marko.

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The problem with the first option is that the geometry needs to have the same topography or it won't morph as you might expect plus this will not morph textures.

For the B option depending on how many objects.. you could just keyframe the visibility otherwise do some mel scripting to turn them on and off depending on the frame

[gmask]

I would expect that wether you went with object substitution or object morphing that essentially the same amount of data will have to be loaded into the game system.

So as long as you under the memory requirements and you are only displaying x number of triangles then it should work.

FYI if you want to try the object morph and the topology's match you do not need to add each blendshape one at a time.. you can select them all and then your target and the resulting slider will step through each shape. You would then have to animate a sequence of texture files .. I have no idea how any of this would translate into the game system.