mesh deform didn't do anything

Question

I made a patch from your tutorial but the last part didn't work for me. Nothing happened when I did 'mesh deform' to the cage on the objects and doing another shrinkwrap made a mess. So I kept it as a flat patch: https://cgcookie.com/u/sheila5/projects/patch

Answer 1 · 2019-04-09T13:47:17Z

Kent Trammell replied April 9, 2019 1:47pm

sheila5 The patch looks great! Did you bind your mesh deform modifiers for the patch pieces?

Answer 2 · 2019-04-09T13:48:45Z

replied April 9, 2019 1:48pm

Yes indeed I did. I did it several times. I even downloaded a newer beta version of 2.8 in case mine wasn't working properly. I also tried combining all of the pieces and converting into a mesh. I could shrinkwrap that but it completely distorted all

Answer 3 · 2019-04-09T13:50:59Z

Kent Trammell replied April 9, 2019 1:50pm

If you can post a download link to your .blend file (via dropbox, google drive, or equivalent) I'll take a close look at what's going on.

Answer 4 · 2019-04-11T14:08:42Z

replied April 11, 2019 2:08pm

I found what the problem was. The cage had to completely envelop the patch layers for the deform to work. Alas there are too many things going wrong with deforming the patch to make it look good.

Answer 5 · 2019-04-11T21:53:38Z

Kent Trammell replied April 11, 2019 9:53pm

Sorry for the delay - I downloaded the file but hadn't check it yet. Glad you figured it out though 👍