Is it possible to attach pinned verts to a animated object. #37
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Is it possible to create a pin group and then parent that group to an object or empty to be able to use blenders graph editor or drivers to co trol the pin animation before transferring it to the solver? Basically how you would pin cloth to an object with blenders native cloth solution. Let me know if my question is unclear and I'll try to add clarification. |
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Yes. Add a Hook modifier to the cloth mesh, set its vertex group to the pin group, and set its target to the empty. Animate the empty however you like (graph editor, drivers, constraints, parenting), then click Capture Deformation on the pin. The bake samples each frame from Blender's final result, so the pin positions follow whatever the empty is doing, exactly like the native cloth workflow. See the attached video. hook-modifier-25.mp4 |
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Thank you! Must have done it in the wrong order before or just missed the capture deformation option. |
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@ryichando Would this approach work for an animated pin group? Meaning the actual amount of pins are animated. |
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The set of pinned vertices itself is static, and you can't have a vertex join or leave the pin group mid-shot. "Vertex 42 is pinned only on frames 20–40" doesn't. |
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Amazing plugin/cloth simulator. I'm curious, is this supposed to work with other cloth types as well? In the docs I don't see anything that says limited to Shell only but I can't get it to work for Solid (using the reference video above). Should I open a new Issue for a Feature or a Bug? |
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@EricW-cg halfway supported but not complete. See #55. |
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Yes. Add a Hook modifier to the cloth mesh, set its vertex group to the pin group, and set its target to the empty. Animate the empty however you like (graph editor, drivers, constraints, parenting), then click Capture Deformation on the pin. The bake samples each frame from Blender's final result, so the pin positions follow whatever the empty is doing, exactly like the native cloth workflow. See the attached video.
hook-modifier-25.mp4