Moho Forum

Synfig has some neat features. I was looking at an eye example and they used a "spherize layer" on the surface of the eye so as it moved back and forth it looks like it's moving over the surface of a sphere. I was trying to recreate this in anime studio using bones but I can't seem to get it to work.
Any ideas, people?

Try to recreate it using bones and clipping it with a mask where the spherize distortion doesn't look fine. I think that using some bones placed average from the external part of a circle abd pointing to its center and with their rotation angles goberned by a controller one would work. It would distort equally the central part of the circle and would produce some sort of spherize distortion.
If you want I can try it once I'm at home.

See the warp by bones example from Mike posted long time ago.
viewtopic.php?t=1443&highlight=warp+field
-G

Duh, layer translation. I was trying to translate the points of the iris and it wasn't deforming properly. Thanks for that link.
I don't quite follow your example though, if you had time it would be useful if you could create it, but it's not a big deal.

Spherical distortion with point motion is pretty easy. Just move the pupil further than the iris in the given direction. And for both pupil and iris, move their "trailing points" a bit further in the given direction than the other points.

Here's a simple example (updated link for easier downloading):

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wnmhmy3yooq

Cheers, Nick.

Thanks for the example Nick. Very useful.

It took me a while to realise that the link doesn't need the filename and should read:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wnmhmy3yooq

cheers - arfa

Thanks arfa, I've revised the link.