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LittleFenris

11-06-2003, 09:46 PM

Here is a screenshot of my characters bones with the model in the background. I just need to know if the bones for the eyes and Fu-Man-Chu (sp?) are gonna be good for animating? I need to know how to have them move when I move/rotate the head bone and move the rest of the character. Do I just use IK to link them to the rest of the bones or should I actually connect them to one of the bones in skeleton chain?

Thanks

http://vwtornado.baked.net/Fenris_Web/JPGs/Bintu_Bones.jpg

Ayreon

11-06-2003, 09:59 PM

Just parent them to the headbone in layout. Then the eye bones will follow the head bone like you want

LittleFenris

11-06-2003, 10:11 PM

cool, i just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything horribly wrong setting this up. Its my first character I've ever set up for animating.

LittleFenris

11-07-2003, 02:13 PM

I guess noone else has any comments? Did Ayreon sum it up with the parenting comment? :) I just wanna make sure I'm going in the right direction with this bones setup for some serious animating. I am in the process of modeling and setting up these characters for a short film myself and a couple friends want to do. :buttrock:

tonyg

11-07-2003, 03:21 PM

Well, it looks like a pretty good set up to me. With good weight maps, this should work, but the real test is to convert them to bones, and do a motion test -- try deforming the model by moving the bones through their range of expected motion -- of course it will deform strangely if you have nto weighted it yet, but I find this test helps me see where problems may arise later... Of course you want to repeat that test when you have set up your weights...

LittleFenris

11-07-2003, 03:29 PM

Thanks for the tip, I'll do that. :wavey:

Also, what about the eyebrows...should I use bones for them or endomorphs? which do you think will be easier to control or give better control and results?

tonyg

11-07-2003, 05:26 PM

Well, if it was me, I'd use endomorphs, but someone els emight have a reason to use bones. If you make sliders for the endomorphs, it is easy to tweak the eyebrow positions when animating.

LittleFenris

11-10-2003, 01:59 PM

I agree the endomorph sliders will probably give plenty of control and be easier to deal with then bones. Thanks for the help.

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