Animating Vertexs

hitmanbob · Post by **hitmanbob** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:00 am

I was just wonderin, is it possible to make animated vertexs in a piece of animated scenery? or can u only move the whole thing

tyvm

Sonictag · Post by **Sonictag** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:20 am

You can animate vertexes, but that isnt how you would do it, you would place a bone, or an object, and then envelope the vertexes to it, so that the vertexes will move with the bone.

hitmanbob · Post by **hitmanbob** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:31 am

well what im tryin to do is take an almost flat box and animate the vertexs so it would look something like the strgate on SG-1

Sonictag · Post by **Sonictag** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 10:05 am

For that you would use a bump map shader animation. But if you were going to do it the way you want to, you would do displacement animations, displace and morph.

D-uK Xeph0n · Post by **D-uK Xeph0n** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 10:35 am

How do you get a model to move with a skeleton? I have an mc model, and a skeleton for it, but they still move seperately... any help?

Sonictag · Post by **Sonictag** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 1:43 pm

Use the skin modifier, see what happens. Mess around with the envelopes, scale them in most cases, so that they select more of the mesh.

hitmanbob · Post by **hitmanbob** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 4:25 pm

huhwuh, im not that good at modeling/skinning/pistoling/sniping/playing halo/having a life/scholl(but who cares)/ and a few other things

so when you said...

bump map shader animation

and also when you said

displacement animations

and this too

displace and morph

and especially this one

everything you just said makes absolutely no sense to me, so if you would be so kind as to restate that in a way that a total noob would understand it would be great