hello all I'm trying to find a work flow or a tool that will allow me to duplicate a mesh flatten it then morph it to it's original shape. I've searching around and found some techniques but once I flatten the mesh I cant morph it back.
http://slidelondon.com/ used to offer a plugin called slideknit.
I can't find the link to it on their site though, but maybe it's still floating around somewhere. It does exactly what you want.
That would require to split the original mesh along its uv seams. If you don't have the exact same point count/organization between the 3d and the flat model, it will never morph.
We haven't updated SlideKnit (or SlideNormalThief for that matter) in a little while, and yes I'm afraid they are no longer linked from our site after the last redesign. Direct links are :
We don't have a lot of time to devote to updating these, but if you do run into any problems you're more than welcome to email me and I might be able to help. Our email address is in the SlideKnit readme and tools themselves.
And of course - these were meant for the community so please do feel free to adapt the code, rehost, whatever will benefit everyone best.
http://slidelondon.com/ used to offer a plugin called slideknit.
I can't find the link to it on their site though, but maybe it's still floating around somewhere. It does exactly what you want.
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http://www.garydave.com/jing/MorphFlatten.swf
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Seems to work fine the other way around too. ie, apply the Morpher mod to the flattened mesh and use the original as the morph target.
I can't find the link to it on their site though, but maybe it's still floating around somewhere. It does exactly what you want.
GeeDave - I tried that I was unable to morph it back to it's original shape.
Hmmm I think it allows you to swap back too.. That's odd. The arrows on the tooltip in TexTools go from UV -> 3D, and also from 3D -> UV.
www.squirrelyjones.com/public/model.pdf
We haven't updated SlideKnit (or SlideNormalThief for that matter) in a little while, and yes I'm afraid they are no longer linked from our site after the last redesign. Direct links are :
http://slidelondon.com/_downloads/SlideKnit/SlideKnit.zip
http://slidelondon.com/_downloads/SlideNormalThief/SlideTools-SlideNormalThief.rar
We don't have a lot of time to devote to updating these, but if you do run into any problems you're more than welcome to email me and I might be able to help. Our email address is in the SlideKnit readme and tools themselves.
And of course - these were meant for the community so please do feel free to adapt the code, rehost, whatever will benefit everyone best.
Cheers!
Rob
sure you can, there is a morph modifier in the flattened mesh, i use it pretty much on a daily basis right now, it works