Hi,
I would be very happy if there are any resources on this. … Have been looking on odforce and here for a while. I am looking for a way to attach an object on a curve, then animate it along that curve and also get it deform as it flows. Just like the Maya tool:
Animate->Motion Path->Flow Path Object

(see the image please)

I tried various techniques, latices etc. But no success. It is supposed to be easy Just wanted to be sure if I am not missing a simple solution…

Maybe wireDeform and wire capture?

Any ideas? Thanks.

Attachments:
screen50.jpg (41.8 KB)

Well,
I have seen it as well. It is a great example. but not very straight forward. I tried to edit it once, but got lost
And it does not center the object on the centroid. I think that was the problem. It deforms it along the curve as: the tail of the object is aligned at the very beginning of the curve and at the final stage the head of the object is aligned at the end of the curve.

When I tried to fix this, I got totally lost in the VEX stages.

Here is the original topic:
http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?/topic/10739-follow-curve-dynamically/page__hl__path%20deformer__fromsearch__1 [forums.odforce.net]

and the file is attached.

If there is no alternative to it, I will go back into digging… Just wanted to check.

Thanks.

Attachments:
Path_deformer.hip (416.6 KB)

check this 8)
I create this example within few minutes so its not perfect, but It works and you can create digital assets with few changes, so I hope that it will be helpful

Attachments:
curve_deform.hipnc (124.5 KB)

Attachments:
PathDeformer_01.hipnc (114.6 KB)

Attachments:
pathdeformer_02.hipnc (180.6 KB)

Attachments:
vfxblend_path_deformer.hda (11.7 KB)