blurgh
03-25-2009, 12:49 AM
hiya,
Im currently animating a character thats dressed in a sort of Napoleonic Wars sort of uniform. As part od the uniform he has a sword attached to strap at his side..
Originally I had planned to just animate the sword after animating the body- now Ive finished animating the body - but its proving a lil harder than I originally planned :-)
Anyway I have it setup at the moment as the strap is one piece of geomtry (its not especially visible so its pretty low res) with a two joint chain contolled with an IK handle (Ik handle on the end) parented under the sword so that the movign the sword controls the strap and the other end is just parented to my characters hip control.
I was wonderign if there was someway I could set this up to automate the overalap - that I could then bake the keys after?
The really tricky part id that the shot involves the character holding onto the hilt and letting go and then taking hold again.
The setup i mentioned has worked pretty well for the sections when his hand is controllign the action
(im also posting this in the character setup forums as im unsure which is best)
Thanks in advance!
Im currently animating a character thats dressed in a sort of Napoleonic Wars sort of uniform. As part od the uniform he has a sword attached to strap at his side..
Originally I had planned to just animate the sword after animating the body- now Ive finished animating the body - but its proving a lil harder than I originally planned :-)
Anyway I have it setup at the moment as the strap is one piece of geomtry (its not especially visible so its pretty low res) with a two joint chain contolled with an IK handle (Ik handle on the end) parented under the sword so that the movign the sword controls the strap and the other end is just parented to my characters hip control.
I was wonderign if there was someway I could set this up to automate the overalap - that I could then bake the keys after?
The really tricky part id that the shot involves the character holding onto the hilt and letting go and then taking hold again.
The setup i mentioned has worked pretty well for the sections when his hand is controllign the action
(im also posting this in the character setup forums as im unsure which is best)
Thanks in advance!