bucktooth
03-28-2006, 07:47 PM
I am starting to learn character rigging using slouchcorp's tutorial at
http://www.slouchcorp.com/mocca/m2101.htm
Although it is a year old, it seems to best rigging tutorial available, and I am learning sooooo much!! But of course I'm having a hell of a time dealing w/ it (... its hard, whine!)
I wanted to start this new thread for other folks who are also learning rigging by doing this fine tutorial - that way we can talk to each other and have our question answered by people who've gone throught this long difficult phase of c4d.(at least for me.)
Right now, I'm at the point where the slouchcorp blueman is getting a spine, the spine is FK. I keep running into the same problem with the spine... after I build it and rig it, the tutorial tells me to use xpresso to pass the "main controller's pos & rot" to the "spine BONE NULL's pos & rot". It is the last step in setting up the spine FK, but when I do the xpresso, the entire spine re-positions itself at the foot of the blueman, but its supposed to go to the "main controller's pos" which is in the hip area. What is going on here? Do I need to "fix" the bones even if their not moving perhaps? Is someone else doing this tutorial who might know how to get passed this step?
miles o'smiles
http://www.slouchcorp.com/mocca/m2101.htm
Although it is a year old, it seems to best rigging tutorial available, and I am learning sooooo much!! But of course I'm having a hell of a time dealing w/ it (... its hard, whine!)
I wanted to start this new thread for other folks who are also learning rigging by doing this fine tutorial - that way we can talk to each other and have our question answered by people who've gone throught this long difficult phase of c4d.(at least for me.)
Right now, I'm at the point where the slouchcorp blueman is getting a spine, the spine is FK. I keep running into the same problem with the spine... after I build it and rig it, the tutorial tells me to use xpresso to pass the "main controller's pos & rot" to the "spine BONE NULL's pos & rot". It is the last step in setting up the spine FK, but when I do the xpresso, the entire spine re-positions itself at the foot of the blueman, but its supposed to go to the "main controller's pos" which is in the hip area. What is going on here? Do I need to "fix" the bones even if their not moving perhaps? Is someone else doing this tutorial who might know how to get passed this step?
miles o'smiles