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thomwickes

06-18-2006, 03:19 AM

I want to set up a bone driven swim attribute on a fish tail. I've done it before with non-linear deformers but i'd like to try and do it with joints. I'm sure it's done with an expression, but I'm not sure how to approach writing an expression.

I also want to be able to turn this on and off to allow animators to animate it manually. Would this require 2 seperate joint chains with blending between like IK/FK?

eek

06-18-2006, 03:28 AM

if your using max this may help:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=293896&highlight=frequency

thomwickes

06-18-2006, 03:42 AM

cheers eek, i'm actually using maya... but i'll have a read through that thread it looks pretty useful.

PEN

06-19-2006, 12:27 PM

You can use ecactly the same math that Charles pointed you to in Maya, the syntax is just a bit different for MEL.

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