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Cage Deformer

3 pages · exported 2026-10-25 · https://meshmorpher.com/docs/studio-and-graph/cage-deformer

Studio and Graph

Cage Deformer

  • Generate Cage: Builds a coarse cage that wraps the input mesh, ready to hand to the Cage Deformer.
  • Cage Deformer: Reshapes a dense mesh by dragging the points of a coarse cage that surrounds it.

Studio and Graph › Cage Deformer

Generate Cage

Press Generate Cage, then feed the result into the Cage Deformer's Cage input. Density and the two smoothing settings are what you tune. It runs on the GPU and needs one that supports compute shaders.

Generate Cage node

The Generate Cage node

Press Generate Cage, then feed the result into the Cage Deformer's Cage input. Density and the two smoothing settings are what you tune. It runs on the GPU and needs one that supports compute shaders.

Pins

Pin Type Description
Mesh Mesh The mesh to wrap.
Pin Type Description
Mesh Mesh The finished cage. Wire it into the Cage Deformer's Cage input.

Settings

Setting Type Description
Density Number How fine the cage comes out. Small nudges do almost nothing - it takes roughly four times the value to double the cage resolution, so move it in big steps. Push it far enough and the cage has as many points to drag as the mesh you were trying to avoid dragging.
Smooth Strength Number How hard each smoothing pass pulls the cage in. The cage starts life as a blocky shell of voxels, and this is what rounds it off. Anything above 1 behaves the same as 1.
Smooth Iterations Whole number How many smoothing passes to run. At 0 you get the raw stair-stepped shell; too many and the cage shrinks in through the mesh it is meant to enclose.
Bounding Box Offset Number How much room to leave around the mesh, as a fraction of the mesh's own size. 0.15 pads it by 15 percent on every side. This padding is what absorbs the shrink from smoothing, so raise it if the cage ends up cutting through the surface.

Available in Mesh Morpher Graph and Mesh Morpher Studio.

Studio and Graph › Cage Deformer

Cage Deformer

Reshapes a dense mesh by dragging the points of a coarse cage around it.

Cage Deformer node

The Cage Deformer node

Reshapes a dense mesh by dragging the points of a coarse cage around it.

Select the node and the cage appears in the viewport with the mesh inside it. Move a cage point and the mesh follows smoothly. This is the tool for broad proportion work like head size or limb length, the kind of change that turns into lumps when you push a high-resolution surface around by hand.

Pins

Pin Type Description
Mesh Mesh The mesh the cage reshapes.
Cage Mesh The coarse cage you drag. Generate Cage builds one, or wire your own.
MorphedCage Mesh The cage after it has been moved. How far it moved is what pushes the mesh.
Pin Type Description
Mesh Mesh The mesh after the cage moved it.

Available in Mesh Morpher Graph and Mesh Morpher Studio.