Complex UV Layout in Maya
Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character
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Need help with lattices!!
The problem is, when i aim the eye, the pupil gets distored by the lattice (see photo)
Is there a way to have the pupil follow the eye deformation, but not have it be deformed by the lattice? in otherwords, i want it to move with the eye, and stay on the surface, but i don't want it to be deformed the way that the lattice wants to deform it. i want to maintain the shape of the pupil.
any help would be great.
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SO you texture applied will deform also.
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Otherwise, have you thought about just painting a black pupil on the white eye ball? since it's just a plain black one colored pupil.
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Also, the pupil is a separate piece of geometry so i can do things like squash/dilate/etc, but manually using controls i set up.
i can have the geometry in the lattice and not be affected by it, if it doesnt have an association with the lattice...
actually, i don't want it to an an association with the lattice, just with the surface of the eye....i thought about a separate lattice just for the pupil that matches the curve of the eye...only problem is, i can't get the curve right, and the deformations don't work correctly either.
is there a way to create a lattice from a surface, so it has teh same curvature?
I cant do it with texturing, because the texture will get distorted with the eye just as the pupil is.
i don't know mel scripting, so unfortunately, i can't do that...espcially advanced mel.
i'll keep messing with it..if there are any more ideas, please let me know.
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found a script called Rivet that creates a locator that follows along the surface, and i parented the eye to the locator...it's working pretty well.
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