Setting up Eyelashes to connect with eyelid - Help

[maya3dmnds]

Hey Guys

Just wondering how I can constraint my Eye lashes to
the eyelid, Character is patch converted to poly, eye
lashes are geometry nurbs. Well I want the eye lashes
to move exactly when the eye lid closes, deforms to where the eye ball rolls up,down,right ,left and around.
Imagine this also Stuart Little with its wiskers.
Although I saw something at LA users group meeting
with using advance network shading, it was a bit complex and heavy on Mel scripting. Anyways would there be a video tutorial for this - Im thinking Gnomon's
Workshop Constraints video.
Any Help or Advice would be Greatly appreciated.

Ciao, Joe

[gmask]

This becoming a popular question.. Somebody else was just asking about this... If the eyelids was being done with blendshapes I would say to just include them with that.

Anyway AW has a video that explains the deformations you mention.. I do beleive it's the character setup tape.

[maya3dmnds]

I do have that tape character rigging for face, just ordered constraints, hoping for anything. I thought
about blendshapes too, but then I wanted each individual lash or hair to point from the direction of surface normal. Like I was saying a mouse with wiskers
as he nibbles his nose the wiskers or hair follows through.

Thanks -- G

Ill try Blendshapes with or SDK
Ciao, Joe

[stevesayer]

What I did for poly blend shape using nurbs eyelashes...

Use a script called CrvOnPoly It is available on A|W's site in the Ducan Brinsmead tutorial on Pfx for Hair. You can select a line of edges, and make a curve along them that updates wioth history (so when you blink or squint, it moves with the polys) What I then do is use this curve to loft or boundary aome geometry for the eyelashes.

Perhaps you can use this curve to control your exisitng mesh?

(For my eyelashes surface I made the duplicate curve for the loft using offest curve and keep original on, that way I have two curves that update with the moving poly mesh, that I can loft between)

[maya3dmnds]

Ah yes yes
curves with history, I could also extrude or birail from
this curve.

Thanks ---- Mr. Bungle ----- Big Heelp!

Im still curious about advanced network shading,
controlling object's Y axis and Heavy on Mel.

Ciao,
Joe

[stevesayer]

No problem. This little trick has helped me out lots when I have a hi res poly model and need to visualise NURBS geometry moving on it.