seUVBlendShape
A Deformer for Autodesk's Maya
Welcome to the home of the seUVBlendShape Deformer! An extremely useful plugin that offers blend shape like behavior but completely topology independent. The only requirement between the geometry is having similar UV layouts.
Some Of The Features:
- Supports any number of target meshes with independent topology.
- Applies additively on top of existing deformation on base geometry.
- Target deltas can be scaled independently in X, Y, and Z.
- Paintable per vertex weight maps for each target, deltas, and overall deformation.
- Multithreaded for performance.
- GPU override support.
- Comes with supporting Python and MEL tools including user interface and shelf.
What Can It Do?
There are many areas where this deformer will save you hours of work. Here are just a few examples:
- Transferring shapes across different characters, such as the face
- Mirror shapes across asymmetrical sides
- Reapply existing corrective shapes on the same character after topology change
- Drive a higher resolution mesh from a lower resolution mesh
- Generate new character combinations from parts of other characters or morph one character into another
News and Updates
March 4, 2024
Its been over 9 years since I offered this plugin and tools for sale. It's been great to get so much support over the years from both individuals and studios. I feel however it's time to make seUVBlendShape free for everyone. You can now download the full package with all the features available at no cost. I am not making this project open source yet though. So please do not ask for the source code. I will still rebuild the plugin for each new Maya version and fix an occasional bug if needed, but I do not have time to add new features at this time. So use as is for right now. Thank you again for all who have supported this project and hope it has continued to be of use to your toolset.
You can go over to the download page to get it.
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Available for Maya 2022 and Later
Windows, Linux, and OS X Supported.
Complies with the VFX Platform Specifications
Complete Documentation and Examples
Available online as well in the download, a complete set of documentation is provided.
Demo Videos
Want to see what this plugin can do? Take a look at these demonstration videos!