I looked at other posts but they didnt seem to solve this problem i have… I have an alembic GEO that tracks to an arm which i need to project and track on to. There is also a camera for the scene As a geo it has hardly any options , ive tried adding diffuse map with the camera paused on one fame b…

hi @Mepstein maybe this is what you are looking for: [image] Projections not sticking on geocache Flame Questions Hey Rob not sure im totally following where the animation is coming from, but if its an alembic geo cache from match move and you use the old skool projector…

thanks , yeah i saw that post and tried it but no banana. Im not sure Exactly what should be connected to what . Ive done this using flame surfaces i have warped myself but not with externally provided Geo where the animation is baked in + using a camera. Im not exactly sure what “stick the image t…

can you use an axis to link the projector directly to the geo? that will then move the projector wherever you move the geo. Take a conection from whatever is the main overall control axis for the geo, connect it to your projectors axis, then postion the projector to get the effect you want.

the axis’s are all at 0. the alembic geo for the arm is animating but it is baked in , there are no transform controls animating that i can actually see

In really simple terms a UV map is how 3D artists attach their textures and materials to a model so it sticks to the surface consistently, wraps around the edges of geometry properly and generally “looks correct.” I’m not a 3D artist at all but my understanding is at creation even primitives like cu…

haha yeah I have used UV’s before It was just the language i didnt totally understand. In this case it is a 3d model and i need to project a still or a surface to it entirely in 3d

Not sure if it helps, but a common workflow is to render a Resting Position pass in a 3d software and the use it to do Camera projections based on Position data. The result is the projected texture sticking to the geo deformation. This is a common method in Nuke… not sure Fusion

I have always been lucky enough to push this type of thing back to our 3D department but I have been facilitated by this Ls_glue matchbox by @lewis [GlueP demo] We have gotten it to work for us yet. The next time we have some breathing space I will try it again but my knowledge of any …

[image] Mepstein: the axis’s are all at 0. the alembic geo for the arm is animating but it is baked in , there are no transform controls animating that i can actually see i have never used alembics - i assumed they came into Action the same way fbx models do (with loads of axis linking to eve…

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hi @Mepstein maybe this is what you are looking for:

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