Scult Like Deformer?

[jonathan-topf]

Does anybody know how i could make a kind of 'push' deformer, like a sculpt deformer but with custom polygonal influence that I could animate.

e.g. I have a poly plane and a torus, when i move the torus near the plane it repels the vertices leaving a the impression of the torus

any help or suggestions would be a life saver

jon

[joojaa]

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Does anybody know how i could make a kind of 'push' deformer, like a sculpt deformer but with custom polygonal influence that I could animate.

Sculpt can have any nurbs shape (see the box next to the menuitem), but not polygonal (for a torus this is all the same). Also then there's the wrap deformer.

[jonathan-topf]

Thanks jooja, its almost working, is there a way to make the sculpt deformer only push vertices in there normal direction and not attract them

[joojaa]

Normal of the influence or the surface?

[jonathan-topf]

Hmm, I dont know, I think both would work as I'm pushing a plane from the bottom with its normals facing upwards. If i had to choose though i would say the normals of the plane not the influence

jon