Kickstand's StretchMesh

[efeklensa]

Wow, amazing stuff.

[jokerfrown]

any of this coming to 3DS max? looks pretty useful

[aniart69]

Outstanding performance! It does open so many possibilities!

[balajianim]

i like that tool very much its very usefull for me and its works realy great.............!

[conceptualmonkey]

How can you make that ball collision ? some one please tell me, when you watch the video at (2:57) the right ball is collision to the left one. How can you tell maya to make that ball to become colllision?

[diegohdz]

Great tool! Congrats!

[ruizlu01]

No need to thank us for watching, we need to thank for developing such a grreat tool.

[VinnyLT9000]

hey. i'm a noob. can you use strech mesh specifically for blend shapes also?

[petervincentadviento]

i love the contact between the two sphere.

definitely useful when it come to animations.

and thank god it's on maya unfortunately it is only for maya 2008 and 2009

[ggnastist]

wil definitely speed up for the rigging workflow.

[ChimeraProd]

Can this prog be used instead of bones and traditional rigs or is this simply something to help with stretchy / muscle type stuff?

[ggnastist]

it's not a replacement for the bones and rigs but it's a replacement for painting skin weights, which is a pain in the ass in maya. ;)

[ChimeraProd]

I'm buying it lol. Do you think this would go well with the PM_heatWeight script for better auto skin binding in maya or do you not even need it?

[ggnastist]

I've not tried PM_heatWeight yet. so, I can't tell you anything.

[vinthebeast]

@ggnastist How does this replace painting skin weights? I dont understand

[scoonani]

oops never mind... just saw the whole vid

[scoonani]

does stretchmesh work on skinned geometry?

[etudenc]

Just checked their site and looks like it's finally out!

[rodneybrett]

I can't wait for this plugin to come out. As much as I like the new Maya Muscle, I'm looking for a lighter solution as it's way too heavy for my needs. It would be also really nice to not have to ever create another blendshape and I really like how you can use the stretchmesh in conjunction with Maya's own deformers.

What would be really cool is if you could convert the stretchmesh deformer to a Maya skeletal "smooth bind", it would saves countless hours weighting "realtime" meshes.

[radsimu]

not bad at all

[a2akash]

not bad