Hi all, I’m trying to use this Tension Map add-on with 2.79 but am unable to get smooth results. The usage instructions are scant, as are my Blender skills, so I’m hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. To highlight the issue I’ve used a flat mid-grey image as the displa…

Yeah it confirmed does not support Shape Keys (but may in the next version), but it does actually support Mesh Deform, it just didn’t work for me because I had a mirror modifier on my clothing. See here: Mesh Deform and Surface Deform support? …

Maybe you guys might want to look at this and see if it can be salvaged? It was built for this guy’s thesis as a muscle system he was building from scratch, but, he uses a tension map as part of it. It’s from an older version of blender (2.6, I think?) so, if it works at all, it will require a litt…

Is this it? https://www.blendswap.com/blend/4902

I believe it is, thanks. I must have just not been paying very close attention. I’m going to get a copy of Blender 2.6 and take a peek at how he accomplished this and see if there is anything salvageable, of if maybe it’s just useless to the question at hand.

Welp, I had another crack at this with the latest version and the creases are still there. Bones are not immune either. [Tension Map Bone Artefacts] It seems like it’s lacking some sensitivity to deformation as well. I saw that the dev can’t afford much time to work on it, so perhaps it’s time f…

It’s not an ideal solution, but have you tried using the displacement modifier instead of material nodes? I did a simple test and it seems to work for shape keys and for bones without the creasing artifacts. Your scenes end up heavier because you need to subdivide the mesh with a subdivision modifie…

Funny you should mention that, because I found out about it a couple of days ago and was nearly ready to report my findings. Thanks for mentioning it though. :slight_smile: For displacement this gets rid of the creases, but there’s another problem: it usually crashes after rendering each frame in …

The only way i’ve found to mitigate this is to add a highlight roll off to the color channels and apply some mid levels dither with a noise, it’s far from perfect and pretty heavy (and a bit noisy), but from afar and on some more lesser distorted geometry it could work. Before [image] After [im…

Yeah it’s definitely not giving quality results - and why doesn’t it have an effect on the squash that’s happening on the X axis? [X Tension Absent] That’s been bothering me for a while. You’ve managed to get it looking better that I have at least, so done well done on that front. …

That’s true, x axis is completely ignored but it could be something with the project idk Anyway I see that your RCS suggestion is getting traction, some dudes are already on it, I’m hyped

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ChrisJones (ChrisJones) June 14, 2025, 1:34am 50

I came up with a workaround here:

Also some of this might be relevant.