Armor/Clothing morphing for different body types

GateCrasher

I'm looking for some help!  Trying to find a way to quickly be able to take an armor set and rescale it via script to fit smaller and larger body types of a humanoid with similar proportions.  The base bodies have identical vert count / order, they are just different sizes and proportions.  If anyone could point me in the right direction for this, I would appreciate it.  I don't even care what software used, just looking for the general method used.

poopipe

In max you can use skinwrap to do this. 

In Maya you need to write your own version of Max's skinwrap (which is not the same as Maya's skinwrap)
Basically ... constrain a joint to each vertex on the base body mesh, skin the armour to them and when the base mesh has a blendshape applied it will deform the armour.


Blender probably has something but now max is £300 a year I don't care about blender. 

GateCrasher

thanks! in the process of building a script for this now!

suspectlogic

I’ve done something similar in maya to what poopipe described. Using wrap deformers and blend shapes.

Developers for brink had a good talk a while back. If you have vault you can try watching it. Also dug up this thread:
https://polycount.com/discussion/159726/punching-above-your-weight

edit: agh sorry, most links in the thread are dead. I should have checked before sharing . I’ll post the video if I can find it

GateCrasher

Thanks suspectlogic.  Sorted it out pretty easily in max.  Trying to figure out how to pull it off in blender now.

thomasp

Surface deform modifier in Blender - https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/modifiers/deform/surface_deform.html

And yeah I was going to say Maya has a deformer for that. No need to roll your own code.