Model shape customization through sliders?

[wildcard]

Character customization is a big thing in games, specially role playing games.

Through sliders, you alter/modify body parts making them large, longer, thicker, etc.

 

I was wondering if something similar could be achieved with in AM, to reuse a model and modify it through sliders.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EVVPmnU484...tailpage#t=171s

[Paul Forwood]

You can create your own pose sliders and distort your model in those poses using muscle mode.

This is a simple example of what you can do but with more time and careful planning you could achieve something closer to your example:

MorphTest_A00a.mov

[robcat2075]

For TWO we made a background character who could be easily be varied in such a manner.

 

A rig that includes stretchable limbs and spines like the Squetch rig or TSM2 would likely be the easiest initial route.

 

This won't be a novice endeavor. In that Youtube clip, Someone put a lot of work into making sure that all that characters various parts would hang together even if they were set to absurdly contrary settings.

 

 

For further investigation.... I've been thinking, now that we have a constraint that will attach a bone to mesh (Group constraint), one could make a basic mesh with bones at the various landmarks. You could push and pull that mesh in the modeler then run some rigging wizard that would use the the bones that had been pulled along with the mesh to properly place the real rig.

[wildcard]

Great to hear that its possible. I'll add it to my to learn list