weight values controlled by a texture
 

Hi everybody,

I'm not very familiar to maya, but I would like to do the following.

I want to use an animated procedural texture to control the weight values of the vertices.
And after that I would like to (move for example) those vertices using their weight values.

It is a great functionality that I could find in Modo, 3dsmax and houdini.

How should I approach this in maya?

Thanks a lot in advance.

i don't think that is possible, you could use blendshapes!

Could you not use the animated texture as a displaqcement map?

Hi AikoWorld & gster123,

Thanks for the answers, but i would really need it to deform the geometry since I want to add geometry operators after.

As blendshapes would not be very practical, but it could do the trick it would be good.
But before this I should need to find a way to the weighted deformation on a shape.

Perhaps the best example would be that the weights of a cluster are controlled by eighter an animated texture or procedural texture.

Cheers

Kim