Is it possible to 'bake' deformer animation?

[dondope]

i was wondering, if i have an animation done with the bend deformer (or another deformer) is it then possible to bake it ?

thnx...

[gmask]

Yes you can bake it just as you would a softbody.. use Bake Simulation

g

[dondope]

i see...now:)
but what i really wanna do is get rid of the deformer, but still maintain its deformation of the object...

thanks again..

[gmask]

If you just want to "freeze" the object in the deformed position then delete the history.

g

[badcookie]

i don't think there is an automation for it, but you could keyframe the cv coordinates in local space manually through the channel box. It would be a big pain but it would work.

[stevesayer]

In reply to:
i don't think there is an automation for it, but you could keyframe the cv coordinates in local space manually through the channel box. It would be a big pain but it would work.

Why don't you bake the CV's/Vertices of the object for the object? After you do this, you can delete any deformers that are applied to it, and the motion will remain.

[dondope]

sounds like a good idea to do it this way...
but in my test scene i have a simple sphere with a animated sine deformer. when i select all the CVs they don't have any values to them (xyz all 0's) so there is nothing to bake.. or am i missing something here ?