New Cage Deformer

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Positive Mean Value Coordinates DeformationsAuthor: Ahmidou Lyazidi
A new ICE based cage defomer utilizing positive mean value coordinates (PMVC) resulting in a deformation with superior quality to that of the factory/legacy cage deformers. (PMVC is described in this Eurographics paper by Yaron Lipman et al.).

One requirements has to be met which is that the deformed object must be fully enclosed by the cage object.

local backup: PMVC_deformer.xsiaddon

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Re: New Cage Deformer

Post by rray » 16 Apr 2014, 14:18

This (link) is the addon I tried (it has the paths fixed) .. needed an app restart. What I tried and what worked was: object fully inside the cage, and the "sparse" checkbox ticked, otherwise I would get a crumpled mesh. Used a quad mesh.
softimage resources section updated Jan 5th 2024

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Re: New Cage Deformer

Post by danyargici » 16 Apr 2014, 15:49

Thanks, I'll give it another go later today.

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Re: New Cage Deformer

Post by Ahmidou » 17 Apr 2014, 02:47

Hi Dan,
Would you be on 2015 by any chances? If yes, I've just posted a scene with the 100% ICE setup on the softimage list.
Please not that in this case the cage have to be triangulated.

I hope you'll get it working!
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Re: New Cage Deformer

Post by mattmos » 17 Apr 2014, 10:21

Hi Ahmidou,
I've had a little trawl through the mailing list but can't find the ice setup, any chance you could post a link here?
Thanks!
Matt

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Re: New Cage Deformer

Post by danyargici » 17 Apr 2014, 11:39

Hi Ahmidou, you have a syntax error in your plugin which is preventing it from working.

There is an Activeprimitive (lower case p) around line 60 which needs fixing. All working now (with the version rray posted that also has the fixed hard-coded paths in the addon)

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Re: New Cage Deformer

Post by Ahmidou » 17 Apr 2014, 16:45

Thanks Dan, I'll fix that on my side.(weird that it was working for me)
About the scene I posted on the list, it's waiting for approval, because of the it's size.
it's also 22Kb bigger than the allowed file size in this forum :/

I'll try to reduce it's size tonight.

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