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3D Studio Max
constrain ?
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21 Dec 2007hi,
I'm new here, this is very cool forum and very helpful
. I think that maybe you would help me. I have a problem with rotation in 3d in special situation. For example: tarzan in 3d - he is jumping from one tree to another, and he is grab a branch, so in this moment I must have a new pivot rotation, exactly now in hand. How can I do this ? By hand ? IK in place of branch and move his body ? but this is hard to make a feel of gravity and you know :/ I had a similary situation and I solved this problem by a point in place where I know that he will grab something and I used position constrain from frame x to y. But this metod didn't give me a satisfaction maybe is possible to make something better and more simple .... ? Sory my english.
best wishes
Luq -
05 Jan 2008im not sure if something like this is possible. I mean mostly they are hand animated or made by motion capturing. But your idea isnt so bad at all. Maybe somone else has an idea how to manage this. As far as i know its not possible (but i could terribly wrong)
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05 Jan 2008Apply a link contraint controller to your hand object....now you can have it switch parents mid-animation
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13 Jan 2008I seem to recall that there's a tutorial in Max that demonstrates switching link constraints.
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21 Jan 2008hi again,
yeah ok link constrain is a cool controller, so I think is one good way to do this - by hand.
Is it possible to create a key for link constrain ? because now I have to tell my object with link constrain that it has a link to another object at frame for example 140. Yeah I have a key on my timeline and I can offset him but on my right side in link constrain option I have wrote that the link is made in 140 frame.
You know what I mean ? So, when I'm posing my character, first blocking than I don't want to worry about when I link constrain use - I want simple tell him that - "hey listen, please link now to the tree, ok but now in another frame to the another object" thats all. And max will create me a key for these links and I can offset this in my blocking stage for creating a timing, without looking to options of link contrain in my right side. Is this possible ?
Thank you for help, regards,
luq -
21 Jan 2008Yes...once you setup your link controller (I'm not talking about simply linking 2 objects together...but instead, changing the object's transform controller to a "link controller")...there will be an option box that will come up in the motion panel that will allow you to set keyframes for when the object switches parents.
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21 Jan 2008so that's sounds cool. I have to test it. The worst thing is always gimbal problem, do max have euler filter or something like in maya ?
Ivansavich glumpers rock ! Did you finish work for this movie ? How many people made this ? Did you learn animation yourself ?
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