Bones/rigging question

[bobtronic]

Hi,

As far I know the setting in the topmost bone applies
to the other bones as well. So you can't make different
settings for example the knee and the foot.
Correct me if I am wrong or this is not the case in R8.

Bob

[flyingP]

Originally posted by bobtronic
Hi,

As far I know the setting in the topmost bone applies
to the other bones as well. So you can't make different
settings for example the knee and the foot.
Correct me if I am wrong or this is not the case in R8.

Bob

Bugger, you're right... that is actually a rather annoying restriction, although all the same, a value of 1/r^4 or 1/r^6 still seems to be working much better than 1/r^10 in places escpecially in the shoulder, good what it does to a crotch is pretty ugly but I should be able to get around that with Claude (I hope).

[LucentDreams]

1/r^2, never change it to anything else. maybe I"m just to lazy?

[flyingP]

Originally posted by Kaiskai
1/r^2, never change it to anything else. maybe I"m just to lazy?

Mmmm..., that's quite heavy, I'm getting good results with 1/r^4 at the moment though, seems to be strong enough to get the shoulder working well without buggering up knee's and elbows too much. Actually I'd post a render here of the model I'm working on at the moment to show what I mean with the shoulder but the thread would need a nudity warning and I am not as far as I'd like to be.
It is certainly proving to be a rather interesting exercise though, although I am a bit annoyed that you can't change it within a hierachy.

cheers

[flyingP]

OK, I am finding ways around this, but is there still perhaps anyone here (who understands more from programing and maths as myself -- isn't hard) who knows why it should "not" be possible to alter this setting within a heirarchy, there "must" be a logical reason, and I would find it helpful if I understood it.

[jdiddio]

I think its possible coding wise, jsut wasn't designed that way, who knows we can hope, and if its not possible then I guess we are no worse off/

[flyingP]

thanks for the reply jdiddio, I was getting a bit dissapointed there for a while.
It is just something that's I would wish, especially for human anatomy. It's not a great problem if all you are doing is a leg as if the manual, just that not every joint works like a knee. I am, I believe managing to model around this problem at the moment, still I would find it useful if I had a bit more control over this function... something for the future who knows.

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