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CloudRig: Intro
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CloudRig: Component Types

cloud_lattice (Lattice)

This is a super handy component type that you can quite liberally just sort of put all over your character to create very simple and very arbitrary lattice set-ups. Lattices are a really powerful, flexible and cheap way of mesh deformation, that can work really well in cooperation with armature deformation, or any other kind of deformation.

I cannot tell you the amount of times we ran into a deformation problem during the production of Sprite Fright, and the solution was "Let's just add a lattice." After about 6 instances of this happening, I implemented this component type, and after that, adding a lattice setup took less than a minute.

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Swaraj Kanthikar
Swaraj Kanthikar
Nov. 8th, 2024

Hi Demeter..Im using blender 4.2.3 LTS and trying to contraint the lattice control to middle bone following your procedure but when i click on jump to target parent of lattice it jumps to main Root control and dosent gets constrained nor it shows the meta lattice bone.any idea where im going wrong ? Thanks

Demeter Dzadik
Demeter Dzadik
Nov. 10th, 2024

@Swaraj Kanthikar Hey, I don't really understand the question, but the Jump to Target button just selects whatever object/bone is in the selector. It doesn't create constraints or anything else like that.

Ronald Francis Fugara
Ronald Francis Fugara
May 5th, 2024

Hi? In blender 4.1 I get an error says "Version Mismatch detected. Download an older or newer version here" and if I press it takes me to gitlab with only CloudRig for Blender 3.5-3.6.3. My question is, is it not included in blender studio subscription?

Demeter Dzadik
Demeter Dzadik
May 22nd, 2024

@Ronald Francis Fugara Heya, CloudRig underwent some time consuming re-writing that resulted in skipping support for Blender 4.1. You can download latest CloudRig from here, which should work with Blender 4.2: https://projects.blender.org/Mets/CloudRig Hope that helps!

Willy Xia
Willy Xia
Nov. 19th, 2023

Why is the hotkey Ctrl Alt S for changing bones' radius unavailable in blender 4.0😥😥NOOOOOOOO

Demeter Dzadik
Demeter Dzadik
Nov. 23rd, 2023

@Willy Xia Yeah, it's now Save As with increment or something like that, I've changed my keybinds, but you can also use the bbone scaling tool in the T panel.

Keen Foong
Keen Foong
May 25th, 2022

Hi just testing this out. When I create the lattice bone and generate the rig, I dont see the lattice object like I see here. Is it hidden somewhere now?

Demeter Dzadik
Demeter Dzadik
May 28th, 2022

@Keen Foong Yes, only the hook object is visible. You can un-hide the Root and Lattice objects in the Outliner or in the add-on's UI.

Keen Foong
Keen Foong
May 29th, 2022

@Demeter Dzadik Yep found it thanks!

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Demeter Dzadik
Demeter Dzadik
May 28th, 2022

@Keen Foong Whoa, I replied a bit too fast there and totally mixed this up with something else. The lattice object should have the same visibility as whatever you gave it. But when first generating the cloud_lattice rig, the lattice object should be visible.

Satish Goda
Satish Goda
March 12th, 2022

Super cool and intuitive setup. Thank you!

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