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moving zsphere 'mannequins'

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#1

hi -

I want to create some really quick zsphere ‘mannequins’ that I can pose and view from required angles to use as reference for a comic book. I won’t be sculpting them, but I may use adaptive skins to render out quick shadows.

I can make and pose the figures fine, but I’m having difficulty in moving the entire thing around the scene, particularly if I want to rotate the figure in the case of it lying down, being thrown or whatever. If I preview the adaptive skin I’ve found I can use the transpose line, but when I revert back to the zspheres it flips back to the original position, then if I do move the figure entirely in it’s zsphere state (by pressing ALT), the adaptive skin messes up when I preview it again. So then I’m buggered both ways.

I realise I could position the camera to give the correct orientation, but often I’ll want more than one figure in the scene so I can see how the shadows might interact etc.

thanks.

J

#2

Use Offset, Rotate and Size with the desired axis selected in the Tools Deformation submenu.

#3

thanks. hmm, yeah… that kinda works. It’s not a very ‘interactive’ way of doing it, and if I do move the the adaptive skin with the transpose line it still pops back to the original position (i.e. he last after I’ve used the deformation sliders) if I revert to the zspheres… I’m probably trying to do something that the software really isn’t meant to be used for anyway… but thanks :slight_smile: