Blender-Export/bake animation of mesh animated by displace modifier?

melviso

Does anyone know how one can bake out mesh animation from blender that is animated using the displace modifier?
Appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks.

derphouse

Use blend shapes. Add a blend key, apply the displace modifier, that should work. Other than that, blender does not export the information you're looking for. Although it might be possible with the new alembic support? I am not entirely sure. My recommendation would be to do it with blend shapes though, and actually hook those blend shapes up to bones via drivers. That'd be the proper way to do it.

Obscura

I heard you can bake a vector displacement maps in Blender. That can be used to make a looping or 2 states anim.

Frederico4d

notsure if that is what you want but if you Export as alembic, and import again, it creates a mesh sequence cache modifier with the animation.

or what else would you bake it to?

melviso

Ok. Thanks a lot for the suggestions, guys. Will look into them.