Simple Bone help please

[brammelo]

Hi,

This shouldn't be difficult. You can simply use a bone for each segment, fix the bone chain, and after that use XPresso to drive the rotation of each bone (if you're using R8). There's an example on the installation CD for a scorpion's tail.

I hope this helps.
Cheers,
BaRa

[dragonz]

alrighy, thatnks for the help, i will give that a shot here soon. I just don't know much about expresso much thouhg :P and yes, i am using R8

[dragonz]

Now the weird thing is, i found the files on the cd..but i still don't understand. Does anyone have any beginner boning/animating tut's out there, (expecially for r7/8) thanks! this could benifit a lot of us.

[AdamT]

There are some basic tutorials in the manuals. Do you want the individual segments to be deformed, or do you want them to keep their form? If the latter you don't want to use bones at all, but instead use basic IK tags on the various parts.

[LucentDreams]

to prevent the colliding, rotate one bone as far as you feel is correct, and then write doen the angle its rotated, then use this as the rotation limit on all the bones so that they cannot rotate any further than the limit and thus cannot go through t the other piece.

[dragonz]

thanks, will give a shot....never have been too well at boning and animating :P

[dragonz]

alright, troubles again, when i put the bones in place, and fix them, my object that i put it in bounces all over the place, and moves and even resizes to bigger than it should be. WHat am i doing wrong?

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