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Ah I see. Yes, that will be working when undo remembers the selections then!
It's not in the viewport until you select it in the Tools menu.
Can it be placed here?
Wanted to see how well this worked on a face. I used base G8F with 38% Zev0 youth morph added (it was a scene I already had set up so a quicker start). I grabbed the nose in several places to give it a hook, engorged the lips, sunk the cheek, and gave it a forehead horn. Pretty fast overall with just some care needed to be sure you were pulling/pushing in the right direction. Now it just needs a wart!
(original face is attached below)
Another test, this time on hair. With the head tilted, the hair alongside the face doesn't respond to gravity. Hid the figure and clothing (to make it easier to focus on the hair) and pushed /pulled in multiple spots to make the hair hang down vertically. These actions are pose specific, so you'd want to be sure you were in your final pose before spending time.
Before: After:
Will definetly look forward to added functions especially rotation and scale =)
Finally something way better than dFormers, thank you! Add-ons would be great.
I went to purchase it and discovered it was for Windows only. One of the very few times I'm disappointed I have a MAC.
Thanks for telling me.
Yes it can.
Under Window - Workspace - Customize
So I was playing around and set up a dform tool using a weight map. The also added a push modifer. Then I went and used the grabber tool and picked out a few areas on the sphere, and found that the dformer tool, I'm assuming has influence over the grabber giving me some wild unexpected moves.
Thank you
Anyone try Mesh Grabber on geografted parts or clothing that is fitted using adaptor templates yet?
Mesh Grabber does indeed work on geografted parts, you just gotta remember to have them selected in the scene tab when using Mesh Grabber. I'm not sure what you mean by "adaptor templates".
I'm having a weird issue with Mesh Grabber, and I'm not sure how to describe it.
In the attached image below, what I was trying to do was select the side of the pillow and have it bend down over the character's arm. The pillow is parented to a group that includes the bed, but isn't parented to the bed itself. I activated Mesh Grabber in the Tools menu, selected polygons and all seemed to be well. (Side note: why are the selected polygons in the scene gray instead of yellow as in the video? Possibly not relevant to anything, though.) However, I noticed that when I selected them, I didn't see the gizmo anywhere. When I pulled back a bit further, I saw that the gizmo was floating well above the pillow, as you can see in the image. Moreover, there weren't any handles on the mesh grabber gizmo to grab. I thought at first that maybe the issue was that the bones of the pillow had been incorrectly defined, but when I went back to the universal tool, the bones are centered in the pillow as they should be. So I reactivated Mesh Grabber again, selected polygons again, had the mesh grabber gizmo floating way above the pillow again. It's actually functioning, sort of -- if I grab the axis point and pull down, the pillow deforms, but there's no way to tell what's going to happen with the gizmo that far away from the item it's supposed to be deforming.
Any clue about what's going on there?
Several of us have seen the same on select items and ManFriday has said he'll look into what's going on after the holidays. I have one stool where the Mesh Grabber controls are way above the object. One thing you can do in the meantime is create an instance of the pillow and place it up where the sphere grabber controls are showing. You can then see the result as you move the mesh around. A bit cumbersome but it works as long as you remember to grab polygons on the actual object, not the instance you're viewing.
Never fails to amaze me how inventive you can be. I never would have thought of that.
I'm hoping that some of these "fixes" in the new year will come along as updates rather than part of an add-on package (although I have no objection to paying for additional features). But I have bought Mesh Grabber anyway - I don't have ZBrush, Hex tends to crash a lot for me and it is a pain going back and forth between DAZ Studio and Blender.
Of course fixes will be free. That's how I've done it with my past products. And thank you for the purchase :-)
I picked this up, and so far it is looking to be a useful tool. I do have a couple of problems:
1) The tool seems to work much better in polygon selection, that vertex/edge selection, which is a shame, as I find vertex selection gives you more fine grained control. The main problem I have is selecting the vertex/edges I want to move. On a mesh that has aleady been heavily morphed I found selecting the right vertex near impossible, each click selected a vertex some distance from the one I wanted, or even ended up selecting a vertex on a different object to the one I had selected in the Scene pane, where as selecting a polgon was much easier.
2) The maintaing the same selection as the geometry editor only works for polygons, not edges or vertices. If I select a bunch of edges in the Geometry Editor then select Mesh Grabber (that has also been set to the edge selection) when I switch back to Mesh Grabber, nothing is shown as selected. The main reason I want this fixed is because using the Geometry Editor to pick vertices and edges worked much better than with Mesh Grabber. As such if the selection was maintained it would give me a workaround to issue 1).
In Geometry Editor you can convert your selection between Polygons, Edges and Vertex. With some mesh selected, in the viewport, right-click->Geometry Selection->Convert Selection->Convert to Polygon/Edge/Vertex Selection.
True, but the mesh grabber can only retrieve the poly selection from the geometry editor at this point. I haven't found any interfaces yet to get to edge or vertex selections.
Thank you for the report. I am aware of these things, but they're a little harder to fix because of the limited interfaces available to me in Daz Studio. One thing that works for me sometimes is that once I have an approximation of things selected in face selection mode, i switch to vertex selection and then deselect the vertices i don't want.
I will try to improve vertex selection regardless. I agree it's the most useful for fine-grained control.
Thanks for the answer. I had tried your workaround, but due to the extreme difficulty of selecting the vertices, I was not able to de-select the vertices I did not want. I should add this was a heavily morphed mesh, where many vertices were significantly displaced from their base positions, so that is what may have been making the job of selecting what I wanted particularly hard.
It's a shame Daz Studio does not give you access to the vertex and edge selections of the geometry editor. However if you are able to modify the tool so that the vertices were easier to select, then the need to grab the Geometry Editor selections would be a lot less important.
I was actually suggesting to use the Geometry Tool in Vertex mode, for example, then convert the selection to polygons before using Mesh Grabber (until such time as yours can do it), if that is what I think Havos meant. Can't try it myself yet, still in the download/install queue...
Well, I have another one to report, and this one is even stranger than before.
I was working with the same set -- the JW Classic dForce Bed -- although in a different scene. I activated Mesh Grabber, then clicked on the bedspread, which had been dForced to drape over a character in the bed. Two things happened more or less at once.
1) The gizmo appeared well above the bedspread itself, way up in the air. As before, there are no handles on the gizmo to grab; the only way to deform anything would be to grab the axis points and hope and pray, more or less.
2) I used the mouse to select some polygons on the bedspread. When I released the mouse button, the bedspread flew up to where the gizmo was, for no reason that I could determine. Mind, since there still weren't any handles, it wasn't exactly helpful to have the gizmo and the bedspread in the same place.
It may be that there's something really weird about that set. I'm going to try it out with a few other things to see what happens.
I could try that, but it still leaves me with a bunch of vertices I don't want, and no easy way to deselect them.
Did u try and freeze the simulation? Another issue could be the tool not seeing the mesh at the end of the timeline, if you used the timeline to simulate.
One possible work around is to export the bedspread as obj, then reimport it and hide the original bedspread. The newly imported bedspread is less likely to have these same issues with the mesh grabber.
1) seems to be same bug that rgcincy reported. I hope to fix that after the holidays when i'm back at my computer. About 2) i'm not sure but undo should have fixed it? I'll have a look at the JW Classic Bed product as well.
The simulation was frozen before I did anything with Mesh Grabber, and I didn't use a timeline.
I'll try with a few other things and see what happens.
One suggestion I would make for the future would be to change from manual selection of individual polygons to being able to 'stamp' selections of specific shapes, such as circles, squares and triangles, along with the ability to create lines. I imagine I'll be attempting to use this a lot for altering machines and vehicles, which would require that sort of geometric selection.
Also an ability to replicate movement on opposing side of an object. To a degree, this funcitons, but if, say, you want shapes to tilt away from an object, you can only either make them go to the left or right, not equally turn in/out.
Very useufl tool, though!
@TheNathanParable
Fascinating! How did you do that?