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

   

   Topic by melviso · Apr 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

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

2. Re: Blender-Export/bake animation of mesh animated by displace modifier?

   

   Reply by Obscura · Apr 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

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

3. Re: Blender-Export/bake animation of mesh animated by displace modifier?

   

   Reply by Frederico4d · Apr 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

   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?

4. Re: Blender-Export/bake animation of mesh animated by displace modifier?

   

   Reply by melviso · Apr 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

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

5. Re: Blender-Export/bake animation of mesh animated by displace modifier?

   

   Reply by derphouse · Apr 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

   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…