I’m trying to Animate a sphere turning into a plane, I’m using shape keys and have the animation down (probably not the best way or done the best way) and I can’t get the spheres I want instanced to the object more evenly distributed (geometry is crap, but I need the sphere to open up like that). Does anyone have a possible solution?
SphereToPlane.blend (2.1 MB)
Hi @Sey.Makes.Art,
There was no animation in your blender file, so going on a guess that you want to make the small spheres on the center ball ( of your middle image ) arrange as they are on the Lefthand ball ( in that image ) swap out your Point Distribute Node for an Attribute Proximity one:
Dj.
sorry about that, it’s not key framed, the animation is in the shape keys, I should of animated it, but the 0 to 1 shape key shows the morph
Do you know if there is a way to evenly distribute it? see how the spheres have a strange curve following the topology verts. I’m wondering if i can connect them so it looks even and as I turn the shape key to 1 the spheres open up evenly.
Based on the way your plane animates into the sphere ( like pushing a ball from under a piece of cloth ) then there is no way to avoid having the vertices that form the perimiter of the disc all cramping together at the base of the sphere shape - as would happen in the cloth analogy.
Meanwhile, any animated change to the topology of the mesh will cause the smaller spheres to jump around, which I presume you don’t want. Like this method . . .
If the final sphere topology has to be clean, then you will need to start from a sphere and transform that to the disc shape to implement the animation, like inflating a hot air balloon.
Dj.
