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Post your compounds here for sharing!

t_chanma — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 21:59:57 GMT

Hello Bifrosters!

We've heard the outcry for an easier way to find and share compounds on the AREA forum. Our team is currently looking at improving the experience, but for now we thought it might at least be nice to have a sticky to act as an interim reference point for all the compounds people want to share.

To participate, please do the following:

Export your compound as a JSON, preferably with an associated MD file for documentation (as shown here: https://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/export-import-bifrost-compounds-with-info-tab-documentation/) as well as a test scene to show how it works. Zip these all up into a single file.
Create an individual thread for your compound and upload your files to it along with a short description, image or .gif of it in action, and links to any dependencies (examples of dependencies would be other compounds you may have used that don’t come with the regular Bifrost install). Once you’re done, add the label “compound_share” to it.
Reply to this post with a copy of your compound description and a link to your individual thread.

This way, each compound can get its own discussion, and users can post iterations and updates to their individual threads.

I’ll post a few examples to get us started, as well as to act as a template for others.

Re: Post your compounds here for sharing!

t_chanma — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 21:58:06 GMT

Bulge Deformer: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/bifrost-forum/bulge-deformer-compound/td-p/8971009

Deforms the surface of a mesh along an fcurve centered around an influence point.

Dependencies: None

Re: Post your compounds here for sharing!

t_chanma — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 22:27:17 GMT

Extrude Compound: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/bifrost-forum/extrude-compound/td-p/8970977

Extrudes the faces of either an entire mesh, or just around an influencer region.

Dependencies: None

(Credit: Aslan Jafari)

Re: Post your compounds here for sharing!

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:47:27 GMT

paintDeltaMap compound: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/bifrost-forum/paintdeltamap-compound/td-p/8972674

This compound will take a source and target objects (with the same vertex count and same vertex order) and will create a new source mesh where the colors are the result of the difference in (local) vertex positions between the two given meshes. Useful to detect deltas between a neutral mesh and its blendshapes.

Re: Post your compounds here for sharing!

DuncanRudd2410 — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:17:08 GMT

DR_bifrostBezier: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/bifrost-forum/bezier-curve-bifrost-graph/td-p/8974649

This bifrost graph takes four matrices as inputs. It derives a bezier curve and outputs a specified number of matrix outputs along the curve. These can be decomposed and used to drive joints / maya transforms.

Hopefully this is useful / interesting to someone out there!

Re: Post your compounds here for sharing!

pranaymeher — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 04:11:57 GMT

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/bifrost-forum/delayed-follow-node/m-p/8975109/highlight/true#M557

Re: Post your compounds here for sharing!

t_chanma — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:54:35 GMT

Transfer closest CPV: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/bifrost-forum/transfer-closest-cpv-compound/td-p/9008265

Transfers color per vertex data from the specified color set on a source mesh to the nearest points on the target mesh.

Re: Post your compounds here for sharing!

t_chanma — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:55:51 GMT

Curve to Bifrost: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/bifrost-forum/curve-to-bifrost-board/td-p/8962186

Import a curve into Bifrost. Note, this is actually a Maya script and not a compound.

Re: Post your compounds here for sharing!

t_chanma — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:25:50 GMT

Object to points: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/bifrost-forum/object-to-points-compound/m-p/9035431/highlight/true#M872

Generates a point cloud on an input mesh / volume.

Scene file for this tutorial: https://youtu.be/zRMAxnpR9EY

Re: Post your compounds here for sharing!

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:44:47 GMT

Here's a collection of three compounds for simple matrix deformations.

"twist_points" twists any point-based object along the vector between a start and end point. The twist can optionally be clamped between said points.
"twist_points_global" does the same as twist_points but always unclamped and around the world origin.
"taper_points" tapers a point-based object between a start and end point. The style of the taper effect can be controlled with an fCurve.

For me those nodes came in handy to control the shape of abstract, procedural geometry. Hopefully someone else has a use for them too!