Matte
11-28-2005, 08:24 PM
Hey peeps, been lurking in these forums forever, never had the need to post anything, so this will be my first post at cgtalk.
Been trying to figure out how to solve this one myself for some time, but havent found a good solution as of yet. What iam trying to achieve is a good way to control both hands at the same time. Like if you were holding a twohanded sword for example. And to be able to switch between using them individually/both in useful way. So that you dont have to counteranimate anything here and there. I have been using both normal parenting and different kind of constraints to try and get what i want, with no real luck as of yet.
If you use the standard parenting approach, for example, every move you make with the parent controller, an object named BothHands for example with right and left down below, affects the children. Nothing strange about that, fully normal. But if i want to move the BothHands controller "ahead" in the animationsequence, for example, to the position where i would like the 2 hands to meet later in the sequence. Then i have to counteranimate the individual hands when i move the BothHands controller ahead, since they are childern under the BothHands controller.
The other approach, using parent constraints, can solve this temporarly. If you fiddle a little with the Enable Rest Position boolean ie. But eventually you get a pop when switching from individual mode/both hand mode anyway, since parent constraints also is a type of "weighted" parenting. So when you weight between 0 -> 1 /0 -> 1 over and over you are stil moveing the handcontrollers between different coordinate systemes, which will at some point cause poping no matter what you do.
I have also tried different combinations of both, with no real luck either.
So what i have been thinking about is a system where the BothHands controller is a kind of a goal or override. For example, when i set the weightvalue to 1 both handcontrollers snap to the position of the BothHands controller, regardless of how much i have moved the BothHands controller previous in time or plan to. They just try to be at the same location as the BothHands controller as long as the value is 1. An absolute position in a way, and the handcontrollers just try to be at that location as best they can, without careing if it is relative to its own internal coordinate system or not. Like a particle goal in a way, which doesnt really have any coordinate system. The particles just try to be at a certain location all the time. Havent really worked much with goals/particles but thats how i understood that the general idea is with goals.
Hope thats understandable, hehe. Anyone got a solution maybee? Ideas?
/Matte
Been trying to figure out how to solve this one myself for some time, but havent found a good solution as of yet. What iam trying to achieve is a good way to control both hands at the same time. Like if you were holding a twohanded sword for example. And to be able to switch between using them individually/both in useful way. So that you dont have to counteranimate anything here and there. I have been using both normal parenting and different kind of constraints to try and get what i want, with no real luck as of yet.
If you use the standard parenting approach, for example, every move you make with the parent controller, an object named BothHands for example with right and left down below, affects the children. Nothing strange about that, fully normal. But if i want to move the BothHands controller "ahead" in the animationsequence, for example, to the position where i would like the 2 hands to meet later in the sequence. Then i have to counteranimate the individual hands when i move the BothHands controller ahead, since they are childern under the BothHands controller.
The other approach, using parent constraints, can solve this temporarly. If you fiddle a little with the Enable Rest Position boolean ie. But eventually you get a pop when switching from individual mode/both hand mode anyway, since parent constraints also is a type of "weighted" parenting. So when you weight between 0 -> 1 /0 -> 1 over and over you are stil moveing the handcontrollers between different coordinate systemes, which will at some point cause poping no matter what you do.
I have also tried different combinations of both, with no real luck either.
So what i have been thinking about is a system where the BothHands controller is a kind of a goal or override. For example, when i set the weightvalue to 1 both handcontrollers snap to the position of the BothHands controller, regardless of how much i have moved the BothHands controller previous in time or plan to. They just try to be at the same location as the BothHands controller as long as the value is 1. An absolute position in a way, and the handcontrollers just try to be at that location as best they can, without careing if it is relative to its own internal coordinate system or not. Like a particle goal in a way, which doesnt really have any coordinate system. The particles just try to be at a certain location all the time. Havent really worked much with goals/particles but thats how i understood that the general idea is with goals.
Hope thats understandable, hehe. Anyone got a solution maybee? Ideas?
/Matte