But i don’t know what they did. Now if i move the Shape Slider as example nothing happens. Because i somehow need informations about the movement , rotation of the vertex group but i don’t know how to assign this. Now the only thing that happens is that the Slider moves in the Action viewer and it moves in the IPO View. But as i said nothing happens with the mesh. What do i have to do to proceed ? (and to add a driver for the shape) ?
I don’t get it. Would be great if someone could help me
Not sure if I can help, but I’ll try since I just learned this. After you have your key defined, you have your initial mesh form at 0. Then move the slider to 1 and deform the mesh for the next movement. Add a separate key for each movement this way. When you are ready to animate, simply move to your frame, set the key shape slider to 1 and IKEY > LOCROTSIZE. If you have, let’s say 3 eyebrow movements that can be done in 1 frame, then just create an IKEY > LOCROTSIZE for each shape in that frame. If you look under https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63489 there is a link to a .blend file that will show you what I mean.
Haarvik: Yes that’s the basic idea. However you don’t need to set LocRotSize; as soon as you move the slider for that key, it automatically sets a Shape key for the current frame. These are not the same as Loc Rot and Size. Also you can set them to less than 1, or even negative values, to allow you to blend morph keys (e.g., open mouth AND smile).
Side question: Once I have my mesh and shape keys as I want it. can I do a SHIFT-D and duplicate it? That way if I have 2 of something I don’t have to repeat my steps?
One more question. I did a simple shape deform. The I decided to try and move the location as well. But, when I animate the object stays in the last position. It never animates the object moving?
If you want to translate the whole object to a new location, just set Loc keys in object mode.
You can set a shape key that makes the whole object seem to move, by selecting all its vertices and moving them over. What you’re really doing is moving the mesh relative to the object’s center. There are probably instances where this might be useful, like with rotating objects, but for simple translations just set Location keys.
Ok, I did a SHIFT-D, but as soon as I go to another frame the object goes right back to the origin of the first one. I can’t seem to figure out how to make it stay in it’s own position.
