simplify softbody

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1

hi

i’m making an animation that contains a softbody. now that softbody is is quiet complex. so i made a simple proxy object of my object. now is there a way to switch the 2 objects with i make a animation with the proxy.

i tride dulpi groeps but that doesent work with softbodys

any ideeeers???

please and thanks

2

hi

i found a way around the problem. not ideel but it works.
i made a vertex parent of an emtpy to the softbody. and the i dupligroup my object to the empty. why dupligroup? because i have a few softbodys that need to be replaced to the same object.

3

You can also swap a proxy in and out of an object at the mesh level.

4

how do you mean? how can you swap an mesh in an object?

5

Press F9, it is under the Link and Materials TAB.

The dropdown that has the ME is where you pick the mesh for an object. You could pick the high-res or low-res version using that dropdown box.

6

oke diden’t know you could switch meshes like that.
does there exist a way/script to switch like a 100 of thise meshes at once? i’ve tryed Alt-D and the switch but that does’nt work

7

No, but you could make one. Just use the Link command.

Here is a snippet of code from my BlendText script.


    # create Text3D datablocks with our specific names and settings.
    tempBaseName = "txt_base_" + returnNameForNumber(charIndex) + "_" + returnShortName(ch)
    txtBase = returnText3DDatablock (tempBaseName,passedCharacter,rg_extrude,rg_bevel,rg_bevel_resolution,1.0,tempAlign,rg_font_name,rg_font_size)
                    
    # Create a scene object to link our 3D base text to.
    tempObjectName = "bt_base_" + returnNameForNumber(charIndex) +  "_" + returnShortName(ch)
    obBase = fetchIfObject(tempObjectName)
    if obBase == None:
        newChar = True
        toConsole("Generating new BASE object [" + tempObjectName + "].")
        obBase = localScene.objects.new(txtBase,tempObjectName)
    
    # Linking...
    obBase.link(txtBase)                    # Make sure the current text is linked to the font object.
    try:
        localScene.objects.link(obBase)     # Make sure the font object is linked to scene.
    except:
        pass

It creates a new text datablock and links it to an object. All you have to do is create loop and iterate through the names of all the objects you want to re-link.

8

thanks i’ll remember that one. i don’t know phyton yet, but am good in java and planning to learn phyton arfter finishing my short movie