Flower Petals

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Hi ,
I am animating the tiger flower from paint FX opening up from a bud. I have animated the flower angle 1 & 2 parameters for this. Basically I wanted to know whether

!) The individual shape of the petals can be randomized

2) Whether the animation of the petals opening up can be rendomized.

Thank You,

Redman

[positron]

Unfortunately it doesn't appear so. I have done extensive flower animation in PFX and have long wished for this feature. The features--leaves, petals, etc--don't appear to be independent nodes. What you may be able to do is convert the brush to polys, select the 'flower' object and do poly>separate which will break up the individual shapes. If you leave construction history on, and depending on the amt. of tweaking you do to the resulting shapes, the PFX animation may be preserved. Good luck, let me know if anyone has found a better method.

Sean

[joojaa]

They can but then you must do a scripted brush.

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Hi Positron,
Incase I happen to know a workaround I'll definitely let you know. Meanwhile we can hope that Mr. Duncan will solve this problem with the new version of Maya.

Bye,
Redman

[joojaa]

Err... scripted brushes aren't workarounds they are there so you can do more complex things tan what the basic brush settings can. And this definitely falls into the category of this. So yes you already have the feature. Se random is mize is one thing but thing is you dnoit want randowm ou want a special kind of random

Problem is the no matter how much more parameters they would put in, it wouldn't solve all problems and make basic usage just more painful. See the falling leaves example brush. And work up from there.