Is there a way to skin a mesh to be driven by particles?

Support Particles and Physics Simulations
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I mean, I want to create a bunch of particles that deform a mesh, for example a cube, is there a way to do that?

Cheers!

2

3ways :
Animation nodes
Dynamic Paint
Alembic or Particle Instance + Vertex Weight modifiers

3

Mmm I’m not sure how to do it with those things, I think I have not explained well, the thing is to create a bunch of particles in frame 1, link the mes to the particles as if they were bones, and let the mesh to be driven by the particles movements.

cheers

4

Something similar to what I want can be achieved with the Explode modifier, but I also need to avoid the geometry breaking and I also need the geometry to follow the particles orientation (rotation)

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my vote for animation nodes too, or a custom little script… but it would be useful to see what you want to get

here’s a really quick setup for vertices to follow particles, it’s just 5 nodes; I guess you need something more complex though, maybe animate some empties using the same idea and manually hook your mesh to those empties