Right way to achieve animation constraints

Unity Engine
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Hi!

I’m very new to unity development and also my knowledge in 3D animations is not very good.

My project is to simulate a Baby in unity. For example if the baby breaths the breast/stomach are moving up and down.

For now I solved it this way:

  • Someone modelled the baby in 3d
  • The same person created BlendShapes in Maya
  • I imported the model and the BlendShapes using the MegaFiers-Plugin (Morph Animate « MegaFiers)

As you can see this approach worked fine for me.
1643806--102111--$baby.gif

But now I have to add electrodes to the baby. And the problem is that the 3d model of the baby intersects with the 3d model of the electrodes.
1643806--102113--$baby2.gif

Now my question is how can I achieve this so when the stomach of the baby (or the baby in general) moves, the cables also move? I think that this will not work with the BlendShapes way. What is the right way to do this? (Bones? i have no idea :()

Regards,
Stefan

2

use bones, or model the cables with the baby together?
Just a guess.

3

Haven’t tried bones yet. I’ve tried to solve my problem using Cloth. But I think thats also not the right way. It looks like the cloth collides on the base mesh and ignores the morphing animation. Is that true or am i doing something wrong? Is there some kind of setting that changes this behaviour?

4

You need to animate your electrodes model. Bones or blendshapes would both work fine.

5

Ok. We are trying now to create the electrodes model with the 7 Blendshapes. The baby has 7 blendshapes and if we animate the two models in the same way, it should work. We’ll see :slight_smile:
Thx,