Most often used expressions

#1

Lately I’ve been digging deeper into Messiah. The expressions are powerful, but there are a ton of them. I’m curious if you guys could chime in on the experessions that you use most often in basic character rigging.

Thanks!

BS

#2

I think the most important ones are MoveTo, Align, the IK sets and Knee Constraint. Also, the CycleBranchMorph sets of expressions are very useful (for driving finger poses etc). PercentStep is essential for remapping values, especially for sliders.

#3

"CycleBranchMorph sets of expressions are very useful (for driving finger poses etc). "

use the New Pose feature for that
Create group, position and save

#4

Can you explain this a bit more…is it easy to drive them with sliders using this method?

#5

Well It’s really just like a switch.
Go to a frame you like
Right click in world view and pick the saved pose you want (say “fist”) and it lays down that pose.
Of course that would negate any percentage amount of a pose that you want to vary with using CycleBranchMorph

#6

Thanks for the input

#7

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