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prayas
09-27-2002, 11:15 AM
Ok guys! Got a huge probelm rigging a character in cinema4D.
mentioned this in a challenge thread before but now it's is totally killing my workflow.(challenge was for fun - now need some real help for a work that needs to be finished)

I made a tiny little face. Made some bones for moving the eyelid(right word). Then attached them to the mesh - made restriction tags - moved the bones in an angle - nice it worked.

Goin' on with that i made bones for the mouth. No lip move only 2 bones. Made the setup the same as for the eyes.
Then i moved the bones and felt not satisfied with that result.

What to do? Hit Ctrl+Z? Yep. And then a big bang the head is totally twisted no idea why. I tried to reset the bones. It worked and the head got the final shape again but the bone-setup was destroyed. The bones where scaled before and got a specific angle but not after this bang.

What happened? A bug. Cinema bug or mistake of myself?

Help would be great!

P..:

if you like to have images of this i can post them later today.
derwolpertinger
09-27-2002, 11:26 AM
images would help i think, but i'll talk to you the other way. :D
LucentDreams
09-27-2002, 02:52 PM
THat undo problem is a limitation, mailny we can't record a rest position, but there is a workaround, as tou can record positions in animation right. so record the PSR (position,scale,rotation) of the entire bone heirarchy, and then when you need to undo you just more back and fourth a frame.
prayas
10-02-2002, 12:15 PM
ok just wanted to post an image and a little animation test to show you what i want to animate.

Hair made by pingo just modified!

@kaiskai will it help to set more undo steps? Or did i take it wrong.

The move:
link (http://portfolio.prayorpanic.com/rendertest_lala_05.mov)

P..:
pit
10-02-2002, 02:12 PM
hi Prayas - this is off topic - just wanted to tell u I enjoy seeing that your character modeling skills improved a lot the last couple of weeks - cool!

What codec did u use for the animation? I canīt see it!

As for the rigging - u can look forward to r8 - it`s a breeze!!! Have had my early bird version for a couple of days and the (previously tedious) task of rigging can now be a matter of minutes!!

Cya
LucentDreams
10-02-2002, 03:07 PM
Hey prayas, number of undos won't make a difference,you'll find you can undo things you did before the bones screwedup but the bones are still screwed, save the position of bones at the 0 frame. thats the best thing to do.
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