Dformers and cr2s [SOLVED]

john_antkowiak

Hi, everyone. I can't find any threads on this subject but if you know of any I'm happy to review them. I have this item, the V4 Flight Jacket by Mytilus. I want to use it as a standalone prop being tossed onto a pile of stuff. It is a .cr2 that has a couple of useful morphs and I can rotate the arm bones in it. But in order to crumple it so it doesn't look like a posed but rigid figure of V4, I planned to use Dformers on it.

But it seems that .cr2s won't successfully spawn a morph in DS v.10.x - if they ever did in any version. (V4 was before my time.) Studio gives no message indicating that the "Spawn Morph" function failed, but the morph doesn't appear in the item's parameters aftwerward. Did I get something wrong here? I'm fairly new at Dformers too although I've used them successfully a number of times.

I know I can export the .cr2 as an .obj file, and that Dformers will work on that. However, when I export the .cr2, I lose the abilityto pose the jacket.  I'd like to pose it and Dform it, but not necessarily in that order. Any suggestions?

Sven Dullah

You need to convert the figure to weightmapping, then you can spawn the morphs!

john_antkowiak

Ok... I have no idea what that means. I'm aware there's a Weight Map tool, but that's the extent of my expertise. When I click on it, it agrees with you that I must first convert the object. But it doesn't tell me how to do that. There's no settings pane or tutorial I can find. Where's the remedial course on weight map... "brushing?"?  I need the one that starts with "What is a weight map and why do they call it brushing?" Thanks!  :)

Sven Dullah

Select the figure, go to edit/figure/rigging/convert figure to weight mapping! You'll be offered two options: triax or general, they both work for what you're trying to do. Hope this helps;)

No need to study weight mapping in this particular case:)

john_antkowiak

Thanks, Sven! :)

Sven Dullah

Glad you solved it;)