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3D Studio Max
Rigging a Ball
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rajmohan 1 posts18 Apr 2007Hi All,
Rightnow I am working on a project in which a ' BALL ' plays major character .
So Iam usin 3DS MAX 7.5 for this project.
My problem is tht how to rig this BALL in such a way it gets all that
cartoonic-Strech , Squash, in all the directions.
In other words the major problem what I see is -
' How to animate the pivot point of the Ball ? '
I found tht in Maya we can animate the Pivot of all the Translate, rotate and scale.
easily.
But I dont know how to do the same in 3DS MAX.
Is there any other method, unlike changing (animating ) the pivot point, for the BALL
by which I get all the strech and squash in all direction.
Plz help me out of this.
ThankYou. -
21 Apr 2007You got me stumped, I dont think you can animate the pivot point of an object in max.
As alternatives you could use morphs or bones but you would have to know in advance what you wanted the ball to do. -
Jonathan 480 posts21 Apr 2007 -
Jonathan 480 posts21 Apr 2007
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22 Apr 2007I always just scale the object itself. That might be the noob way however
More advancedness for ball-rigging in max here: (it's in spanish, but use google translate or something)
http://www.sudproject.cl/blog/2005/12/2 ... l-rigging/ -
d3m0ni0 5 posts22 Apr 2007yeah, you can't actually animate the pivot in max, but if you apply the "xform" modifier to the object, then you can animate the object's center. -
quinn paynter 356 posts23 Apr 2007Id go with Spoudazo and use the FFD as well man, probly your best bet for good ball morphing in any direction. -
TheOnlyAaron 188 posts27 Apr 2007I ran into the same problem once, my solution was to put a squash and stretch modifier on the object. And then used the wiring parameters to have a control object, control the rotation of the squash and stretch gizmo in the modifier stack, i do say it worked out quite well for what it was.
You can download it here http://theonlyaaron.animateharder.com/rigs.html if you want to take a look at how it was made, or use it or whatever.
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