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Rigging problems in max7
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Kirby 9 posts23 Aug 2005HI all
Thanks for your help last time with the lighting, I'm onto my rigs for characters and I'm having extremely annoying issues with one rig that is holding me back.. And seeing as what i am trying to do to me should seem fairly easy I think i'm going to encounter this problem over and over.
Here is a screenshot.
OCTOPUS Rig as u see. The arms are rigged with spline IK + helpers.
My Issue is I want a HElPER object (like the round onein blue that moves his whole character) ...I want this kind of object helper, in a circle at the base of the neck to rotate one of the neck bones. I have tried to align it and make sure its centred to the pivot of the bone. But when I wire parameters to link that to it, It rotates the neck around parallel to the ground. And the rotation angles are wacked...or dyslexic.
I have also tried the plain old method of linking the bone to the helper etc.and trying to make sure the hierachy stays intact.. but... it doesnt..I'm at a total loss with what to do.
I'm trying to make my final film for my college, and unfortunately they dont have version 7 there and I cant get any help in the lab. But i'm talking to my lecturer about trying to see if this can change.
Any input and help you can offer would be enourmously helpful to me, I've been put behind 4 weeks trying to work this one out
IF you need the MAX file to look at please send me an email.
Thanks so much. -
Kirby 9 posts23 Aug 2005
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24 Aug 2005Hey Kirby....I'm not quite understanding your problem.....
I loaded up your max file, created a helper at the base of the bottom neck bone and linked the bottom neck bone to the helper. Then, I linked the new helper I made to the blue rings of death in order to maintain the hierarchy. Everything worked fine...did you try that already? Or is what you want to do different? -
Kirby 9 posts25 Aug 2005Um yeah that works for the rotation of the neck bone, but if the neck helper is just moved with position tool then it detatches the bones from the rest of the spine from the neck up..maybe this is normal? i'm not sure.. i just didnt like how it does that.. I thought that i'd be able to move the xyz position of the helper and have it tell the bone to move that way and the rest of the heirachy of bones would move sort of to adjust to the movement but still keep attached as a whole spine instead of a broken one
Am i just not understanding how this should work? -
Kirby 9 posts30 Aug 2005Problem SOLvered! woot.
just my retardedness thinking bones should work tha kirby way instead of the normal way. WOOOOPS
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