lynnJonathan opened this issue on Jan 21, 2002 ยท 4 posts
lynnJonathan posted Mon, 21 January 2002 at 2:13 AM
Hi all. I was working on a character that walks through snow and I wanted him to leave footprints. I had an idea of how to do it and shockingly it actually worked. I added magnets to the feet of the character. I then selected the feet and turned the dials to 0 for the magnet settings. I then double clicked the magnets and set them to effect my terrain prop. The area he walks in has lots of polys but not the outer aeas where he doesn't walk so that the prints look good. Only thing is that when he picks his feet up off the ground the prints dissappear. So I figured out which frames his feet hit the ground on and exported obj files at each of those frames. I then used them as morph targets- easy since I allready wrote down the key frames for his feet- I named each obj file as the frame number. The effect turned out to look pretty cool. Maybe I'll try to make a tutorial when I have some spare time.