In-engine vertex editing

[CrazyM]

I've been playing around with some ideas for vertex editing, or possibly creating a blend shape/morph/shape key animation system.

 

 

[reepblue]

Really cool. I see it most useful for doing facial expressions/animations.

[CrazyM]

Thanks, that's my thought as well. Now that I've got a couple of ways to isolate and move vertecies, saving a basis shape and some target shapes should be easy, then it's just a matter of Lerping values. I'd much rather have existing shapes detected and usable in the API, but I wanted to see if this could be a viable approach in case that doesn't happen.

[Olby]

Very clever, nice!

[CrazyM]

Right now you can drag to select/deselect, or right click a vertex for the same effect. It's all a but clunky right now, but I think it could be made into a viable blend shape workflow if a native solution isn't added to the API. The idea would be to load characters into an editor map, and create and save shape information for use by a controller.