Oh Man!, i m in trouble. I FROZE my object

[pomme]

I am in a group project. I modeled out all the face shapes, saved it in the mixer, and i applied a custom param to the head. I group everything as a model (group the head, the shapes, the mixer, the custom parameter as a model)

Then i hand over the model to my partners for doing the facial animation. At the same time, i do the texture for the head. It works fine at the beginning, however, i hit freeze to freeze the whole head when i meant to freeze the texture coordinate only. now when i go to the custom parametre, it won't work with the shapes anymore no matter how hard i try to move the sliders. I go back and check the different before i hit freeze (since i still have the non texture model saved in a different file) what i am missing is "cluster shape combiner" under "polygon mesh". I have no idea how to copy from one head to another (well, i guess it is not suppost to let you copy) then now, i am stuck. my textured head has no animtions on it, since i hit freeze. or the grouped model (head) has no texture. is there any way i can copy the texture coordinate to the "grouped head" or any other solution? of not, well, haha, i think i have to redo it in a stupid way. Retexture it.

[atyss]

Here is my suggestion: In the project folder, you have a folder called Backup. XSI frequently stores backups of your scene. In this folder there are files that are actual scenes, so I would open them and try to find the version you need and start from that.

I just hope that someone didn't clean up this folder.

Hope this helps
Salutations - Cheers
Bernard Lebel

[pomme]

it is too late. i already wrote over those backups.

[cinemafan1980]

I'm new to XSI from maya, so I don't know all the functions of XSI. But in maya, there is a deformer called "blendshapes" which allows you to take one object (the "base object) and morph it to the shape of another object (the "target" object), provided they both have the same number of points. With facial animation, you'd usually use static targets, but you can use an animated target as well, and the base object would animate just as the target did. In this case, what I would do in Maya would be to creat a blendshape with make textured head the as "base" and the non-textured, animated head as the target, and I'd turn it's effect all the way up, so that the textured head would have exactly the same animation as the animated one. I should think you could do the same thing in XSI with whatever the shape morphing tool is called in it.

[pomme]

I usually do that too (texture first, blendshape after) but for some group work reason. i need to hand over the blendshaped head to the others for animating, at the same time, i can texture it. but this is not the point