Description

Title:	Map animatable body types
Category:	Workflow
Status:	Considered
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Posted By:	SteveDGreen ( Stephen Green )
Date Created:	12 July 2017
Description:	Is there any possibility of having animatable body types to be controlled via maps in the future? At the moment it's a step key to change states, and it's a great feature to have, but being able to trigger states via a map or gizmo would be amazing. Thanks, Steve

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12 July 2017 #13560
EPHERE	You mean to have half a mesh as fluid and half as cloth, for example? How would that work? Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)
12 July 2017 #13561
SteveDGreen	Well if you wanted something to slowly dissolve, moving from a solid or rubber state to liquid. More between solid and liquid rather than cloth. So objects could melt, pour away and congeal for example.
12 July 2017 #13562
EPHERE	I think for this you can start out as a solid, then switch to liquid with high viscosity (in flex settings helper) and then animate viscosity going down over time. Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)
12 July 2017 #13563
SteveDGreen	That's interesting, thanks - think it could still be useful to be able to map the viscosity in this case though, if possible, rather than just be a global setting. Cheers Steve
12 July 2017 #13564
EPHERE	Unfortunately in Flex it is a global parameter so we cannot have it specific to an object at the moment. Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)
12 July 2017 #13565
SteveDGreen	Hi, thanks - oh well, worth asking :)