Bat Rigg

[arctor]

you could try building curves along the joints, then build surfaces using the curves...as the curves move with the joints the surface will follow...

HTH

[bonne]

So.. uh. Not that great at rigging yet so I'm not following you 100%.
So first, in max, create a "Line". THen to turn it into a surface add on an extrude modifier.
Then how do I get the curve (and surface ) to follow the joints how?

[arctor]

I don't really know max at all so I have no idea how you'd do this...

build a curve based on the joints...I guess you could use regular weighting to get the curves to follow the joints...
then build a skin between the curves...

[Cactus Dan]

Howdy,

Have you considered using a cloth simulation for the wing membrane? ;)

Here is a thread where using cloth for a dragon wing was discussed:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=54&t=603925&highlight=bat+wing

Adios,
Cactus Dan

[bonne]

Haven't really used splines much either before.Anyway when I apply the surface modifier to my spline I only get a flat face. However if you look at the tutorial they get a whole bunch of faces and alot of detail on their surface.

Also on the tutorial the basic shape of the skin is a triangle on the top attacked to a bottom square. And there's a line between the 2 shapes (they're still one object though, attached together). I've tried for quite a while now but I can't seem to be able to use a regular "cut" from edit. poly while working with splines - to create that cut off middle point.

I'm not sure how important these 2 issues are to the end result just wanna know if anyone knows how to fix this? I could probably get by the way I have it now though.

Also, they keep mentioning adding a "edit spline 2" modifier. Is this some special edit spline or what?

[archanex]

I'll second Cactus Dan on using cloth for this. In fact, Paul Hormis (www.hyperent.com) has a tutorial for this exact thing if you buy his cloth DVD. It's quite good I might add =)

[rekapidesign]

hi, iam so beginner but i can help ,i have an idea
u wanna to make the wings in between bones(between the fingers of the bat ) have curvelinear appearance when the wings go up and down in flying thats what i get
so i think that u suppose to create a plan between the fingers (or any other object)
then make a spline with 5 verts or more as u like then create bones and then attach that bones with this spline and repeat that about 3 times along the plan make your skin
i know that way will waste alot of time but thats my idea

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