Stretchable limbs

[theflash]

Could you tell us your logic or the steps you are doing?

I believe you have used distance node, in that case where are the locators parent? That's one area where problem could be.

[Mark-J]

If the your using the ikHandle itself, or a locator constrained to that handle in the distanceNode then you'll get a cycle. Easiest thing to do is just parent the end locator/distance ref to the controller itself.

[TheRazorsEdge]

Check out Jason Schleifer's "Animator Friendly Rigging" Series (AD Learning Maya). I think you might find what you are looking for in the part that covers arms.

Cheers!

[nottoshabi]

Thanks Mark that's exactly what I was doing. I will have to adjust the code.

Razor I will look into it.

[cssmaya]

hello
when you are using locators keep in mind that u must parent constraint the top one to a bone one level upper than the one belongs to ik. for example if you have shoulder-->arm-->elbow-->wrist and the ik goes from arm to wrist you must parent the first locator to the shoulder not the arm itself , if you do this and as mark-j told constraint the second one to the control curve, you won't get cycle

[nottoshabi]

Yes Css Maya you are right. Apparently the locators can not be connected to the same chain it deforms. So what I did is connect the locators to the bind joint chain and deform the animation chain. Before I was trying to keep the animation chain and everything that deforms it all under one group. But that keeped kiving me cycles and it did not evaluate properlly.


Now I can't figure out how to turn the strechy on and off. Do I connect the on and off switch to the multyply and divide or the condidtion node?

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