Hi all.

I'm writing a script which does some automated crossing of objects. That is, it should "mix" two objects together (their deformers, transformations..etc). What I'm having trouble actually doing is moving the nodes of one to the other. For example (in pseudo):

create nurbsSphere1
create lattice deformer on nurbsSphere1
move lattice points around
create nurbsSphere2
move nurbsSphere2 control points around

how do I take the modified lattice of sphere1 and apply it to nurbsSphere2? Similarly, how to take the exact modifications of control points of sphere2 over to nurbsSphere1?

I was thinking, just cut the couple of nodes needed for lattice and plug them into shape. I'm not quite sure how to do that, though, and if it would actually work. Different transforms/deformers require a different number of nodes. (All this has to be automated, which is why I can't do it manually).

Thanks.

I just had a quick look into lattice deformers and the connections it generates in the hypergraph:connections window and it looks a bit crazy. Like you said, I hunted down the connections and tried stripping them and reconnecting to another sphere but to no avail.
It looks like you'll have to dive in proper and get your hands dirty on this one as the help doesnt mention anything either

Simon

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Yeah that's what I thought. I think what I'll do is just detect if there's a lattice, and if there is, then I'll run the "lattice ..." command in MEL, reading the values from the node to pass as arguments.

It's the only way I can think of...

Thanks!

came to the same conclusion... as you two.
havent found an easy way to do it.