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It is not as simple as that.


Have a look at the structure of the watermorph files in the R4/data/watermorph folder.

The watermorph are made up of up to (i think there is a limit) 64 points or blobs.

Each point has a x,y,z location of the "blob" and also teh size of the size to.

The x,y,z points are roughly in the range -1 to 1 in 3D space - although you can go a little outside this range it may have unexpected result depending on what "size" of the waterworphs skins (watermorph variables: size[5]) as defined in a per scene basis.

Each of the up to 64 blob has a size variable average size in most of the pointmorphs is 1 (all the ones initially created had a size of 1 and AFAIK only I have created any other with sizes other than 1) and a small size of say 0.5 might be not be viewable when alone (e.g. not contact to any other watermorph "blobs" ) depending on the overall watermorph size.

I hope that explains a little more about watermorphs.

Thank you for your explain, Rovastar.
But how did you made your watermorph's? Just with Notepad? Or did you use the file 'StandardShapes.java' in the same directory?

I suspect, that all objects consist of metaballs. And the x,y,z positions are describing the center of a metaball. Is that right?

Yeah I just made the watermorphs by hand (draw out what I wanted to make on paper ) and typed them in in notepad. I didn't use the 'StandardShapes.java'. Although I had a copy of it I didn't realise that was in the distro....

Yeah the x,y,z positions are the centre of the metaballs.

Just experiment really.

Thank you! Your answers were a great help!