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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: Josmic8or on May 04, 2010, 12:39:03 pm
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To all of you who've had experience in animating characters in anim8or what's the best way to animate eyes-MORPHS or BONES ???
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I would say bones... but it could be a preference in many ways. If your eyes are part of your mesh, then morphs... but most eyes are separate from the head unless low poly, so most likely you'll want bones, because then you don't distort your eyes and they are easy to aim. If you use morphs, you would have to calculate the degrees the eyes need to rotate, and use the morph target accordingly, with bones you can guess and check.
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I ussualy animate both ways. I make morph targets with the rotation of the eyeballs and combinations (X+Y,-X+Y, X+-Y) but sometimes I also use bones. Personaly, I prefer morph targets because I believe the movement is more precise.
But both ways work just fine.
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I think eye balls should always be bone and the eyelids morph when animated
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For a normal spherical eyeball as part of a figure I would suggest using bones, since they will allow the ball to rotate correctly. Morphs move vertex points in a totally linear fashion, so the eyeball would actually distort through the morph tweeners. Having said this, your model appears to use non-spherical eyeballs, so morphs might be the better option.
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Actually my model has a spherical eyeball and it's separate from the head.I usually use morph targets to animate eyeballs but now I'm started to see the importance of using bones.
Thanx Guys! :) :) :)
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I like morphs personally
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