CGTalk - dummies and bones

eagle300

08-04-2002, 11:13 PM

anyone know of any good bones rigging and applications of bones tutorials? i'm having problems figuring out dummies....no pun intended. i'm having problems attaching the dummies.

Chris

08-04-2002, 11:56 PM

http://www.maxtd.com/frames.htm

these rock for max! :)

eagle300

08-05-2002, 02:23 AM

Excellent ttutorials. know of any video tutorials? i'd like to see this visually. i think it'd be easier if this dummy could see how the dummies are linked to the bones.

Chris

08-05-2002, 02:52 AM

sorry, I dont know of any off hand. What in particular are you having problems with? The basic idea to link a dummy to a bone would be:

click 'select & link' tool
click on the dummy & drag the dotted line to the bone you want to link to, then release.

that will link the dummy to the bone so that it inherits the bones position, rotation & scale transforms.

eagle300

08-05-2002, 02:54 AM

i think the problem is figuring out what to do after that. after i link the dummy to the bone, i notice that the bone and dummy move but everything stays in place. it's like it's been unlinked to the main bone chain.

Chris

08-05-2002, 03:13 AM

that sounds like a wierd one. Is anything else previously linked to the dummy?

Nemises

08-06-2002, 02:26 AM

Be Careful which way you are linking.

If you link the Bone to the Dummy, then the previous link (bone -> skin) could eb broken.

The bone must be the parent of the Dummy, not the other way around.

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