[3ds max] how to shrink warp a plane to a mesh?

ebbob

Hello,

I used maya and there was a feature - that you can shrink warp a plane (or whatever) on a surface and get it relief. How can I do it in Max? I googled like an hour and found only some solutions using single vertices from graphite tools (but I have like a thousand) or some solutions based on UV and textools, but I have... Hm...

Mark Dygert

It sounds like you could use the conform brush to do what you need? Which is found in the graphite modeling tools also.

~4:12
https://youtu.be/s1bTyPHbI3k?t=259

Pac_187

There's also the Conform Compound

http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2016/ENU/?guid=GUID-5790F099-E538-4702-9831-EC06C0EA2819

As well as Conform Spacewarp

http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2016/ENU/?guid=GUID-5A572E5F-4C66-431A-AF59-B4AA741222C0

Conform Spacewarp doesn't work with Editable-Poly though.

You could also try the projection modifier, but it doesn't really give you any control.

coven

There is also a conform MCG. You can also add to it. I added relax controls  to smooth out the mesh after it has been conformed, for example.

spacefrog

Don't know for what look you are really after, but some time ago i did an experiment to shrink wrap a complete character using ephere's Lucid plugin ( free beta ). The outcome looked pretty great for my use case  IMHO

http://www.frogsinspace.at/?p=1361
https://forums.cgsociety.org/t/urgent-cloth-sim-achieving-the-look-of-vacuumated-rubber/1726930/4

cptSwing

Scary.Thanks for the links!

ebbob

Yes, thank you for the links. But I used Blender and then exported to max, lol.