Morphing mesh from one to another.

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So I want to make some 3D morphing where one object transforms into the form of another. I figure shapekeys would be good for this.

  • I start with the default cube… this will be the “second” shape.
  • Add a Suzanne monkey head to the scene. This what I want to warp to become the cube.
  • To the new mesh, a shapekey (Basis).
  • I then add a new shape key (shape1) and go in to edit it so that it looks like the cube. (See next steps)
  • In EDIT mode of the new shape key, I expand the vertices to fit around the cube and then apply a shrinkwrap modifier so that it takes the shape of the cube.
  • Finally, I apply the modifier… no wait… apparently I can’t apply modifiers to shape keys.

Darn - anyone got a method which would work?

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You can copy shape keys from one object to another (same number of vertices) so have a base object and then duplicate it to make the different shapes. You can then copy those back to the original as shapekeys

3

Sounds good Richard Marklew… I have my two mesh items, but how do you copy a shape key from one to the other?

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Select the new shape object, shift select the original base object and use the Join as Shape option from the small triangle button

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Perfect - thanks a lot man.