This is a noise deformer plugin for Maya. It deforms meshes using fBm (fractional Brownian motion) which adds up multiple layers of Simplex noises.

Both the C++ and Python plugins are available. Multi-threaded implementations are also included.

Usage

1) Load the plugin, either using the Plug-in Manager or using the following MEL command:

If you are using the C++ plugin:

loadPlugin "skNoiseDeformer.so"
or
loadPlugin "skNoiseDeformerMT.so" (for the multi-threaded version)

If you are using the Python plugin:

loadPlugin "skScriptedNoiseDeformer.py"

2) Select a mesh

3) Attach a new noise deformer to the mesh by executing the following MEL command:

If you are using the C++ plugin:

deformer -type skNoiseDeformer
or
deformer -type skNoiseDeformerMT (for the multi-threaded version)

If you are using the Python plugin:

deformer -type skScriptedNoiseDeformer

4) Adjust the noise attributes (e.g. amplitude, frequency, octaves, lacunarity) in the channel box accordingly

5) Move/rotate/scale the accessory locator to transform the noise space, as desired

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Source Codes

The source codes for this project can be found in GitHub:

• skNoiseDeformer GitHub repository

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Credits

This plugin uses the noise library from Casey Duncan: https://github.com/caseman/noise

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License

Released under The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 Skeel Lee

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