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Omita

01-05-2003, 09:53 AM

I am looking for a Split bone tool for Maya. Some other packages have this tool... more or less. You select a bone, initiate the tool and cut the bone into 2 bones. It really nice for rigging wrists. After you have the arm all setup you just Split the lower arm bone so that you can have a nice dual joint wrist for smooth deformation on the wrist, using set driven keys or whatever to halve the wrist rotation.

Anyway, I can't figure out how to split the bone in Maya or a 3d party Mel script. Right now I have a longer work around to make sure the bones is perfectly centered in-between the other two joints. But it's a pain.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Omita

bigfatMELon

01-05-2003, 10:13 AM

there's splitbone.mel at highend3d.com.

-jl

Omita

01-06-2003, 10:37 PM

Great... perfect...

Thank you very much.

-Omita

dwalden74

01-07-2003, 05:28 AM

I had problems with this once I started scaling joints (all joint under the splitted joint would start scaling together when I scaled a higher joint). I was thinking of sending the author an e-mail about this but I never had time. Just make sure that script works for you before you start using it all over...

:beer:
David

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