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PC- Rigging : Jacques Daigle
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01 Nov 2005Almost there.. .almost there...
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03 Nov 2005
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04 Nov 2005TO me it sounds like you have only selected one joint and you have bound the mesh to just that joint (If I read that right). When you smooth bind you have the option to bind to the entire heirachy or selected joints only - I'm guessing you saw that and have chosen to bind to the selected joints only.
The thing about Maya is that if you select say, a knuckle bone, all the other joints will be highlighted down the finger to the tip most joint. But!... that doesn't mean they are actually selected (looks like it I know, that foxed me to start with). You'll need to manually select each joint in the VP. Or you could use the Outliner ot Hypergraph to select the joints you need.
If you want all the joints from the selected joint all the way down to the last joint in the chain you can type 'select -hi' in the command window. (A very simple MEL command that I've put on the shelf as I use it a lot
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Hope that helps... It could also be a skinning NURBS problem, but I know nothing about NURBS in Maya - so I can't help there. -
04 Nov 2005Ah ha! Yeah, all that makes sense... the -multiple joint having to be selected- problem. I don't think I tried that one... although I might have thought about it and said to myself "naahhhh... couldn't be"
I'll give it a shot when I get back from work tonight, thanks alot!!! -
04 Nov 2005Success!!!!!
Thank you sooooo much! -
14 Nov 2005Ok... so here's my basic and functionnal rig... to me it's pretty advanced, I even did something I never thought I'd be able to do... let alone understand what it means... I painted weights on his feet! Woohooo!
I did try things I hadn't tried on my other rig... but everything still felt new to me.
He's got a set of foot attributes, a pole vector-less knee, an IKFK switch... and lights for his mouth
I think I might have overdone his mouth lights... I might dimm them down, if I could have a few opinions that'd be neat
Another thing, please, if someone sees something I did that you can clearly see doesn't work or shouldn't be that way, let me know...
I did try to add squash and stretch... but it's a big headache for me... I didn't get it to do anything like that... Oh well. Maybe next time:)
Thanks !!
Rig :
http://www.jacquesdaigle.com/stuff/rigshow.mov
Lights:
http://www.jacquesdaigle.com/stuff/lights.mov -
15 Nov 2005Looking good mate! I think the mouth lights is a great touch!
That being said...it would almost be nice if they were even brighter....maybe (when they're lit up) have them be completely red with self illumination at around 60% (combined with the actual lights)
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15 Nov 2005Yep the lights are a nice touch - and could be brighter
The rig is looking good so far - I like the toe pivots, and IK/FK switch is always a bonus!
Just a couple of suggestions: You could put a bend modifier on the eyebrows linked to an attribut on the Control shapes, so you can have come more versatile facial expressions.
Second would be to have some way of having each of the mouth lights move up and down slightly (so you could give it some basic mouth shapes, a smile etc) But that is just a suggestion and it may not fit in what you have in mind for your char. -
15 Nov 2005
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01 Dec 2005Ok, so I guess I just wanted to say that I did put a deformer on his mouth... with odd results, but it's there.
At this point there's no real point in trying to compete with Sir Tyson, but I might have something going on at some point, it depends on how much time I have over the holidays.
TV production sucks the time out of my days like you guys wouldn't imagine.
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01 Dec 2005Hey man...don't get discouraged!!!
Very much looking forward to your animation next month
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