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In a message dated 95-09-05 00:06:50 EDT, [e-mail] (Thomas
Healy) writes:

>Morph question:
>
>While watching some videos the other day (Minds Eye series ect) I noticed
>a trend of morphing that I've been trying to mimic with little sucess.
>I noticed a lot of morphs where the Object would "grow" objects like
>limbs and appendages.  So I guess my question is.  What is a good way to
>try to make things "grow".  I suppose I could do displacement mapping ala
>T2 checked floor scene.  But I'm kind of stumped on this one.  For example:
>
>what would be a good way to make a video cassette grow legs & then walk
away?
>
>

Hi Tom,

Try modeling the appendage first, then setting a series of parent/child bones
along it's legnth.  Shrink the bones to 0 in the "Z" dimension (or just the
senior bone, depending on the effect you want).  When you want to extrude the
limb, grow the bone(s) back to their original Z legnth.  This works with
tentacles and pseudopods, I'm not sure how well it would work with legs.

Bart Palamaro
Dark Horse Productions
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