CGTalk - Walking the box

SS05870

01-23-2003, 04:58 PM

Hello everybody,

i'm working on the typical exercise of George Maestri's books "Character animation" about a box that walks. I want it to do it, not using bones but FFD...

...and the question is: how can i link a dummy object to a certain number of FFD control points?

thanks

X99

01-23-2003, 05:12 PM

Simply Put, You don't. As far as I know as I have done the same exersize, you cannot link the Control Latice to anything. You simply have to move all the points accordingly. Its easiest with a 3x3x2 ffd box around the object. Worth a go, but I find bones faster now.

MayaV

01-23-2003, 05:17 PM

hi

havn't tried doing that with ffd but i think you can do that by going to the sub object level of ffd and select point and then slap linked x form modifier on it and point it to the dummy. i think this should work for u :)

regards

Vivek

SS05870

01-23-2003, 05:35 PM

I've already tried Linked XForm...it didn't work

No modifier...any controller?

thanks :shrug:

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