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#Script follow objects

    15-Oct-95 01:28:27
Sb: #Script follow objects
Fm: sanford kennedy 73201,1374
To: Martin Doudoroff 74644,2144
Martin, I just bought The Script Extension. I have been looking for some scripts that show some ways to select and move a certain area of pixels, but so far I havn't found anything. I would like to use it to change the expressions on a texture mapped face. Is it possible to do this using TSE? I know where the pixels (eyebrows, mouth) are on the model. I thought I could count the pixel row and column using photoshop, and then go back and use a script to move them, frame by frame if I have to. What has been done in this area? Also I want to move a group of 12 follow objects that define the movement of the whole figure in IK. I want to make a canned movement cycle that includes shoulder rotation, head and body bobbing, weight shifting from left to right foot, etc. Has anybody written something like this that can be applied to any figure? Third! I want to write a script that will place the model's feet on a path that follows the contour of a surface, but doesn't sink into it. I am not sure how to approach this one. Maybe select the closest vertices on the surface to the path and then enter them in an array…..? How would I operate on them to make sure I was on top, and not inside the surface? Perhaps a dummy could then be made to follow the contour? Regards, Sanford