Puppet pin tool equivalent in Fusion?

[Shem Namo]

Hello Everyone, How is it going?
Just out of curiosity, is there anything like the "Puppet Pin" tool from After effects in Fusion?
I know the first candidate would be the "Grid Warp" tool but it isn't exactly the same,
Or maybe I'm just missing something

Thanks in Advanced,
David Kohen.

[SecondMan]

"from After Effects" doesn't mean anything much. Please can you describe the tool and what it does?

[danell]

Puppet pins lets you place out dots on an image and from there manipulate the image from those points. Lets say you have a leg, you can put one point on each joint and then make a walking animatino without breakup up the leg-image.
Here is a tutorial but at 03:59 you can see the result of the puppet pin:
A very powerful tool.

The closest I have found for this in Fusion is re:flex, a morph plugin from revisionfx (https://revisionfx.com/products/reflex/). There is also a morph tool in Krokodove but it forces you to use closed splines that makes it harder to morph stuffs.

[Shem Namo]

Oh Sorry, where are my manners?
Here is the best video that I found that cuts straight to the "point"

Thanks,
David.

[Shem Namo]

Sorry @danell I just saw that you already posted.

[Shem Namo]

Thanks @danell .

[noelevatorstudio]

The closest thing is this:

FUgraph by FIFTY50
Unfortunately it's not working well on my side, i tried with different pc but it seems heavy enough for my cpu to crash fusion.

IK rig is honestly my most wanted feature, i tried creating something equivalent with a custom tool but i think a bit of programming is needed for this one.
(Inverse kinetic is also fun af)

[SecondMan]

FUgraph by FIFTY50

Coming to Reactor soon (by the way)...

[Millolab]

That one by Fifty50 is great, but has nothing to do with the puppet pin tool...

[botanik]

I'm not an expert in programming, but it may make sense to see how it is implemented to Moho, the more that there is a script used by Lua language.

[Shem Namo]

I think that it can maybe be done with a simple macro.
It's just like a polygon that drive a grid warp, but
it will probably need a lot of expressions to make it work.

The IK rig does look like it a little, but the idea was to create points only where you need them,
you can create as many or as little as you need.
The only way this is better than grid warp is that it's quicker and easier to use.

I'll try to see if this is as simple to make as I think

Thanks,
David.

[theotheo]

Blender does this via a Laplacian deformer, might be worth looking at for inspiration.

[SecondMan]

There is also a morph tool in Krokodove but it forces you to use closed splines

No it doesn't - it's a pretty terrific spline warper:

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EDIT: ohh... but Morph's extra Viewer Controls aren't there in Fu16. Fu9 only if you want to use this tool for now...

[danell]

Oh ._. I never got any result if I didn't close the spline. Good to know! Hope they will be able to fix the Viewer Controls for F16

[Loffe]

Can maybe someone explaine to me how to get the krodovow Morph tool to work i cant get it to.

Thanks in advanced