Can you point to anything in 3D animation that already does this sort of thing? I don't think it exists.
The idea sounds reminiscent of an idea I posted on this list a few years ago, wrapping a sculptie mesh around a collection of prims and "deflating" the mesh until its vertices form-fit the prims within, sort of like vacuum-forming with plastic, to quickly make a multiprim object into a single sculptie. , Sending raw soft-mesh vertex points to the client to accurately show the soft mesh shape would likely be far too slow. A simple mesh can contain a few hundred points, each with X/Y/Z coordinates, and these must all be adjusted for each new "frame" of the 3D renderer. You would probably have to simplify and generalize the soft body modeling to make it fast enough for a slow network connection, and leave the actual modeling up to the local computer. Define general static forces that pin the mesh around its edge and on its surface, such as the flattening buttons like on chair cushions. To "inflate" the mesh into a bun or balloon, assign a general direction of billow. And if desired, also adjust the elasticity of the rays linking vertices together to tighten up or loosen the overall shape, such as along seams on pillows.. To deform the mesh the server only sends a force and a 3D impression shape to the client, such as a sphere X meters in diameter pressing into the mesh surface with Y newtons of force. The client then uses that simple data in combination with the defined static forces to dynamically deform the soft mesh vertices, such as representing your avatar's feet pushing down on surface of a trampoline. Just don't ask me to program that. :-) - Dale Mahalko / Scalar Tardis On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Glen Canaday <gcana...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can imagine fields of waving grass, rubber couches and trampolines _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges