[Bf-committers] Proposal for better integration of shape keys

[Xavier Thomas]

I think you have to:
-apply the mirror modifier
-select all the left vertices and create a vertex group
-same with the right
-duplicate shapekey
-use vertex group as mask (above the bassis selection)


2013/2/26 Tobias Oelgarte <tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com>

> Could you give an example? If i do that, then the shapekeys are applied
> before even the vertex groups are mirrored and i can't control the left
> or right side separately.
>
> Am 26.02.2013 11:30, schrieb Michael Fox:
> > to do this you use vertex groups, and the mirror modifier already
> > mirrors vertex groups .L->.R
> >
> > On 26/02/13 21:10, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm currently working on a face rig and i wanted to use shape keys for
> >> the details. But i encountered the problem that i would need to apply
> >> the mirror modifier. If i don't, then i have no way to create left or
> >> right sided shape keys, because every shape key will always affect the
> >> left and right side of the resulting mesh. (in the stack the shapekeys
> >> are applied first to the mesh, the mirroring happens afterwards)
> >>
> >> But if i apply the mirror modifier then i have other problems. At first
> >> i have to define left and right sided shapekeys. This is a lot of extra
> >> work. The second point is if i have to make some corrections to the
> >> geometry later on. Grabbing a vertice is no problem (x-mirror), but
> >> deleting and creating new faces in a mirrored fashion is a problem that
> >> x-mirror does no solve.
> >>
> >> So i was thinking on how this could be avoided. I came up with the idea
> >> that shape keys should recognize that a mirror-modifier is the first
> >> modifier. If it is set to x-mirroring, then the mirror modifier should
> >> be applied first and the shape keys later on, while automatically
> >> influencing the left and right side with two influence sliders. This has
> >> multiple advantages:
> >>
> >> 1. no need to give up the mirror-modifier
> >> 2. shape keys only need to be created on one side
> >>
> >> A simple mockup would look like this (left current, right proposed):
> >> http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=46086
> >>
> >> Greetings from
> >> Tobias Oelgarte
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