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Rigging and maybe even script questions/solutions needed
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Bardur 78 posts30 May 2007 -
30 May 2007
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Bardur 78 posts30 May 2007
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Bardur 78 posts31 May 2007
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Bardur 78 posts31 May 2007Tyson.. i guess you know very well how to rig/make a "controller"
like the ones you use in the tutorial you made (about bones for the face).... or those that Lowmax uses
i still haven?t found a way to have a viewport controller (how to make one... easily) and at the same time also have a attribute controller for it (and reset) that works... it seems like a wierd bug, but i guess its just the way i have set mine up
all i know about making the controllers myself is i have to use IK somehow and limit it to go what ever direction i want ... but i have no idea how to make that ik system work and also how to limit the circle in the middle of a rectangle to not go outside the rectangle
any help would be MORE then welcome
BTW.. we have almost finished the rig but we do have some small stuff that you guys might help us with... then its on to skinning and THEN animation
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31 May 2007Hey bro...sorry I've been really busy with work and school (exams this week) lately...I will try to get to your questions tommorow
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Bardur 78 posts31 May 2007
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Bardur 78 posts01 Jun 2007
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Bardur 78 posts04 Jun 2007Ok.. i have a new issue.. and i hope somebody know how to maybe fix it
Basicly we have rigged and skinned the monkey now.. and the morph targets work fine still, except 4 of the morphs
Smile Right,Smile Left, and two others.... its wierd..
All the other morph targets work fine but just not these four.. max crashes if i move them
i have tried everything i can think of... i have also tried to merge everything into a new scene..
but its the skin modifier that is the cause of them not working, if i disable the skin modifier the smile morphs work fine
and i have been skinning for 2 days now to get it all perfect!
Should i post the scene for you guys to look at? .. Tyson? i guess you might have a suggestion...
here's the scene.. so that you can test it (Max 9)
Thanks in advance
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Bardur Mikladal -
Bardur 78 posts05 Jun 2007Ok.. i fixed it..
i had to have the monkey as two object.. one as the head with the morphs
and one as the body
but i just have to cover the seam on the neck now
Now the morphs work super fast and everything works perfectly
*damn i have learned alot by making this damn monkey
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05 Jun 2007Aw geez dude I'm totally sorry for not getting to your question! I had a take-home exam, as well as work to finish this weekend and I totally forgot about
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05 Jun 2007Glad to hear you fixed your problem though.....I tried to load up your file to check it but I only have Max 8 so it won't work
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Bardur 78 posts05 Jun 2007no worries
heh
Yeah its been quite learning for me because i have had to track down and fix the problems my self...
Hope its going good with your exams... and i wish you good luck with them
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Bardur 78 posts05 Jun 2007Heres a kinda stupid question but ill ask this anyways in hope of such a "holy thingamabob"
Is there a way to smooth between two meshes?
as you might know i had to sepperate the head from the body... and now i got that damn seam on the neck... i dont really want to add something there like a scarf or tie.... (i might have to... but..)
so is there a way to smooth between the seam from body to head?
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05 Jun 2007Haha not really...that's why it's generally not recommended to detach heads from bodies
The best thing you could do is cover it up. Maybe give your character a scarf?
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Bardur 78 posts05 Jun 2007Ok we'rejust gonna leave the seam there...
But heres another question... my friend made the rig.. but its lacking a lot of stuff.. such as on/off stretchy bones...
so is there a way to color the bones when tey stretch via Maxscript?
does anyone know of a way to make that happen?
its just so damn hard to make a walkcycle when you dont know when the bones stretch and when they dont
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05 Jun 2007Hmm...I guess you could parent the color value of the bone to the scale value?
Ie...multiply the color brightness by the scale value. Since a stretch value of 0 would result in a scale value of 1.0, it would mean that at default stretch, the brightness would be [brightnessx1] (would would effectively be neutral). Anything higher (stretch value of 1.1,1.2,1.5 etc) would thus make the bone's wirecolor brighter
This is off the top of my head so I could be wrong, but the code would be something like:
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Bardur 78 posts05 Jun 2007i tried a moment ago to make a blend material one blue and the other red..
and in hope of being able to wire the mix value to the strecth... but there is no stretch.. so i though i had to go with the scale (just like you said) (but in the bone tools.. we set the stretching to: stretch and not scale...)
well.. i tried wire the values but it didnt seem to work
ill see if i can get it to work.. ill try to use what you replied with
Regards
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