my character needs a skirt

[Srek]

Hi Eric,
how about using SIK bones and control them via goals that are fixed to the deformed mesh? You can even controll the stiffness of the connection depending on the movemen tgoing towards or away from the character to prevent intersection.
Cheers
Srek

[teg]

I'm not familiar with SIK, so, could you please estimate the time you would need to put that thing in place, and the cost... If you're interested, I will ask to the producer.

Thanks in advance, Srek

[Srek]

Originally posted by teg
I'm not familiar with SIK, so, could you please estimate the time you would need to put that thing in place, and the cost... If you're interested, I will ask to the producer.

Thanks in advance, Srek

Sorry, i can't help you myself, but i think there are several pretty good animators here that know Soft IK and Xpresso sufficently for this.
Cheers
Srek

[teg]

Thanks again Srek,

So, is there anybody who thinks to be strong enough for that challenge?
I'll also ask on FC4D forum, but your solution seems to be exactly what I need, Srek.

If nobody reply, I will have to put myself in SIK and Xpresso...

[Srek]

I created a simple example on the concept, maybe it'll help you.
Scene (http://www.bonkers.de/download/sik_cloth.c4d)
Movie (http://www.bonkers.de/download/sik_cloth.mov)

Cheers
Srek

[teg]

Thanks a lot Srek! It seems to be a solution... I'll explore it as soon as possible and keep you informed.

[wesware]

Srek,

Thats pretty cool.
Nice solution and very nice of you to post the file.
It is slightly disturbing to watch... not sure why??

[Aurety]

Wow ! thanks Srek, but what does the vibrate tag on the third bone ?

[wesware]

The vibrate tag supplies the animation to the bone.

[AdamT]

Originally posted by wesware
Srek,

Thats pretty cool.
Nice solution and very nice of you to post the file.
It is slightly disturbing to watch... not sure why??
Because of the similarity to your mom? :)

[JoelOtron]

(pulls up a chair and a bowl of popcorn...)

[wesware]

Originally posted by AdamT
Because of the similarity to your mom? :)

WOW! From outta nowhere!!!
Adam... have you been drinky-drinky.
Come on now... let's raise the bar here at CGTalk. No need for such childish outbursts....I'm going to take the high road here and rise above your need to bring others down to feel better about yourself.
Sidenote: Actually, I thought it looked more like your cueball head. :buttrock: (yeah thats right... I gave myself a buttrock)

[AdamT]

Originally posted by wesware
WOW! From outta nowhere!!!
Adam... have you been drinky-drinky.
Come on now... let's raise the bar here at CGTalk. No need for such childish outbursts....I'm going to take the high road here and rise above your need to bring others down to feel better about yourself.
Sidenote: Actually, I thought it looked more like your cueball head. :buttrock: (yeah thats right... I gave myself a buttrock)
Hahaha! I'll see your buttrock and raise you two thumbs. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[wesware]

Sweet w/ the thumbs man.

Yeah, I'm one to talk about being bald.

[Gendou]

Srek,
Do you know that your host is blocking all of your .mov files from download?
I wasn't sure if you knew or not, but you may want to contact them about this.

good luck,
Gendou

[Srek]

Originally posted by Gendou
Srek,
Do you know that your host is blocking all of your .mov files from download?
I wasn't sure if you knew or not, but you may want to contact them about this.

good luck,
Gendou
Hi,
movies are working 100% fine here and i have no other report on this beside yours. Maybe something is not working correctly on your side?
Cheers
Srek

[anobrin]

I did'nt bother setting vertix weight or restriction tags
in this quick sample but
if you created your walk cycle in poser you can export the BVH
motion and have C4D convert it to a rig with the poser animation
data intact upon import
I dont have Mocca so im not sure how hard it would bee to set up SIK
on one of these preanimated rigs imported from a BVH file

http://66.70.166.29/motions/skirt.mov

[Aurety]

Hi Teg, I don't know if you remember the Mam'Goudig's dance. It was with poser 4 + pro pack and the old plugin to export to V7. In this case, the skirt ( robe ) was modeled in the same mesh in C4D, export to Poser Prop Pack ( Obj format ) with selected part to conform the barney's rig from PPP. I used a BVH Motion, and back to c4d. The old way... but nice render at the end. You can see some old rendering tests here :

Mam'Goudig Walk on the scene ( 173 ko ) (http://www.lev-communication.fr/testimg/scene4goudig.mov)

Mam'Goudig in african dance ( 1,2 Mo ) (http://www.lev-communication.fr/testimg/mam_fil.mov)

As you know, you can find my tutorial on frenchcinema4d site. :D

Good luck ! Sorry to post this solution, but so fun to remember these old files. I hope you like ! :beer:

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