topic Re: MASH deformer not working as expected in Maya Forum

MASH deformer not working as expected

marcus — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:30:52 GMT

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting the MASH deformer to work as shown in the tutorial on Mainframes website.

I' not able to get the scaling to be affected by noise. As far as I can tell, the scalePP is not going into the deformer.

could someone please try it and give me feedback if I'm missing something or if this is another bug?

regards

marcus

Re: MASH deformer not working as expected

Nadja.Bueckmann — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 11:18:27 GMT

Hi @marcus,

can you send me a link to the tutorial you are referring to?

Best, Nadja

Re: MASH deformer not working as expected

marcus — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 11:48:18 GMT

Hi Nadja,

of course

https://vimeo.com/83579056

before you say, this tutorial was for MASH 2.2.3, I know that. but I tried to make sense of the manual and also tried to replicate the effect in the tutorial, and the scalePP is not automatically connected, when applying a noise to the scale attribute for the mash network.

Also, I believe I already submitted a bug report 😕

regards

Marcus

Re: MASH deformer not working as expected

Nadja.Bueckmann — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:12:45 GMT

Hi @marcus,

no problem. I´ll have a look. I will also look if there is already an issue logged with our development deparment 😉

Best, Nadja

Re: MASH deformer not working as expected

Nadja.Bueckmann — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:14:29 GMT

Hi @marcus,

one more question: which version did you use? Maya 2016 Extension2 SP1?

Best, Nadja

Re: MASH deformer not working as expected

marcus — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 15:55:37 GMT

Hi, Nadja,

Yes, that is correct.

Maya 2016 EXT2 SP1

Re: MASH deformer not working as expected

Nadja.Bueckmann — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:59:45 GMT

Hi @marcus,

I recreated the setup on my side.

As you already pointed out, I also experienced that face scaling on the deformer is not working as expected.

So I tried to find a workaround.

You can achieve the same effect very easily with the Explode node.

On the link below you can find a video walkthrough of using the Explode node in Ext 2.

MashDeformer

Hope that helps. Looking for your feedback,

Nadja