Rigging a chest using biped/physique?

#1

:banghead: I’ve been bashing my head against a wall trying to figure out how to rig/skin a womans chest in 3DSM 8 using Bi-ped & Physique (required for class to do one Biped/Phsyique & one Bones/Skin). Ive been typing in weights and using the envelope tool but it never works … the breasts keep getting squished when I rotate the spine forward & elongated when I rotate the spine backwards. Is there a tutorial on this anywhere (checked here and 3dtotal) … or, just some help on here would be super-dooper. :smiley:

Thanks!

#2

I would suggest using skin instead of physique. It is much easier to weight, and in my opinion alot better. I know Sandeep says to use Physique, but how much can he complain since skin works with biped, when I had his class he never even told us that. I would go with skin and see how it works. If you want you can send me the file cr_moss@hotmail.com and I could take a look at it for you.

#3

lol

That really creeped me out that you said/typed Sandeep. LOL.

Will he let us use Skin instead of Physique for class? :open_mouth:

I might try skin in a bit… :stuck_out_tongue:

#4

I did it, my girlfriend did it, and I know a few others, he didn’t say anything. And since it works, why not do it? Its an animation class anyway right?

#5

The assignment is for Character Animation … so, the class where we learned how to use physique and skin, etc. :\

#6

Yeah I know, It just bothers me the way he teaches that class. I mean it should be called Character RIGGING not Animation, or the class should be split in two. And I don’t understand why he is so in love with character studio, especially Physique. But I guess there’s really nothing we can do about that. It just bothers me when I see so many students struggling with CS all quarter when they thought they were going to get to do some character animation.

#7

Yeah it should be called something else.
Im trying to use Skin right now instead of Physique … ha! I forgot how to use it. :frowning: Oh well … Ill figure it out.

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#8

So I know for later …

How would you rigt the breasts to ‘bounce’? lol. I would assume bones would be added to the breasts and skinned like other limbs? :smiley:

#9

Yeah, that’s the easiest way. You could also automate the bounce by using spring controllers, flex modifiers, or even reactor. But hand animating it would probably work best.

#10

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