so i'm having to animated an irregularly shaped object with an inner chamber (separate object) that needs to animate along with the outer shape while at the same time maintaining the offset between the inner and outer layers. so far the best approach i've found is to set up clusters on the inner object, then parent them to…
Is this something that you could perhaps composite in post? I feel like that would make your life much easier. I'm not really sure what you're doing though. There's a lot of different hacks I would investigate with this. -Solid object, but with a shader that makes it look like it's two different ones -Both object parented…
Without knowing more about what you're doing, and from the workflow you're suggesting here, you might want to look into the djRivet tool. Similar to what you're doing now, but its 1) An existing script, so it might speed things up 2) Uses UV space to constrain vertices/cvs to another object.