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Displacement From ZBrush to Arnold (Maya) gets twirly when animating facial rig
Hi Polycounters :) This is my ever message here after ghosting for a while and this place is the best. I'm an animation student, working on my first ever 3D short movie. I made a model, and I've recently added a facial rig which works fine (for a first timer). I wanted to move towards my next step which is adding a… -
Re: Displacement From ZBrush to Arnold (Maya) gets twirly when animating facial rig
Good idea. Just from looking in the UV editor I noticed this behavior - The UV set morphs during animation and overlaps itself + exceeds the UV defined square. Is this expected? How can I fix this? -
Re: Displacement From ZBrush to Arnold (Maya) gets twirly when animating facial rig
Looks like you animated the uvs. Maybe you where in uv mode and set a key? -
Re: Displacement From ZBrush to Arnold (Maya) gets twirly when animating facial rig
I wonder how did the Braverabbit Shapes aided you with? What does this plugin do? PS: nice BS!! -
Re: Displacement From ZBrush to Arnold (Maya) gets twirly when animating facial rig
This was it! The UVs were created after the blendshapes deforming while they should be done prior to any deformations/skinning. Since I couldn't drag the UV inputs via the inputs editor (it was undraggable) I simply unbound the skin and deleted the blendshapes node, and then re-imported them again (super easy if your'e… -
Re: Displacement From ZBrush to Arnold (Maya) gets twirly when animating facial rig
@Yerus Thanks! Shapes is actually a great plugin, it helps create & manage many of the different aspects of BS: https://vimeo.com/260911091 (the video explains more than I know or use personally..) -
Re: Displacement From ZBrush to Arnold (Maya) gets twirly when animating facial rig
check this thread:https://simplymaya.com/forum/showthread.php?p=92761#post92761 As a sidenote, when exporting Disp maps from ZB set the subpix to 0. Having it at 4 does nothing and exponentially adds time to the bake. Some tutorials tell you to crank this up, but I tested it thoroughly and it has absolutely no effect on… -
Re: Displacement From ZBrush to Arnold (Maya) gets twirly when animating facial rig
Apply a checker texture to the diffuse channel and take a look what does happen in the viewport and on the render. -
Re: Displacement From ZBrush to Arnold (Maya) gets twirly when animating facial rig
Just to further demonstrate my problem, Iv'e rendered out ~40 frames of my test scene and added the wireframe as an overlay:
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