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Is it possible to Interpolate between Alembic Streams?

Discussion in 'Asset Importing & Exporting' started by AndrewKaninchen, Nov 5, 2019.

  1. AndrewKaninchen

    AndrewKaninchen

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    Is there an easy way to interpolate different simulations on the same base mesh, exported as different alembics?

    What I want to achieve is to blend between some cloth simulations done offline for a character's cape and sync them up with the character's animations as they are controlled by an animator.
     
    AndrewKaninchen, Nov 5, 2019
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  2. vladala

    vladala

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    Hey,

    Thanks for your message.
    This is not supported by the current plugin. It would be rather hard to implement in a general case.
    You might attempt to do it yourself as a script. Lerp every single vertex, normal, vertexcolor for every mesh. This might prove to be quite slow unfortunately.
     
    vladala, Nov 8, 2019
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  3. AndrewKaninchen

    AndrewKaninchen

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    Thanks for the response! I figured I could write something like that myself, and in the scale I plan to use it it probably won't be prohibitive in performance (it's a single character and it has a rather low polygon count). So I might actually try it, if we aren't satisfied with a bone-rigged approach. But I suspect it will be ok either way, just wanted to make sure i was an option.

    Anyway, thanks again!
     
    AndrewKaninchen, Nov 8, 2019
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