Control Curves For Leaves And Petals

[zqw]

I am working with a single flower. A control curve on the stem works fine. But, when I set up control curves for leaves and petals, they seem to only influence the stem (slightly.) If I turn on curveMaxDist, then they don't influence anything.

Is it possible to control leaves/petals? Or, should I just bake to geom and do my deforming with bones, etc?

[drblacksnake]

I doubt ifluence curves would give You control over such LOD. If You animate single flower then e.g. skeletal control is the way.
Another thing is if You want to stick with PFX, then You can design some rig and set of brushes what combined would give You control over most of parts of plant.
This is beyond brushes form library.

[duncanbrinsmead]

First off make sure the brushtype is Mesh.
On the brush under flowers you can adjust petal curl, bent twist, etc.
These are all keyable attributes. Also if you have 7.0 you could try
creating a pfx modifier, making its widthScale 1.0 and using the force or displacement attributes to shape the petals( like a sculpt deformer ).

The control curves do not affect petals or leaves, just the branches.
As mentioned, you can also simply convert to poly and animate with
traditional methods. I would do this if you have very specific ways the
flower needs to move( for example acting like a character ).

Duncan