Septopus: Thanks for adding. Is that more of an advanced rigging technique? I dont think Ive seen that done in anything Ive seen before. Interesting though as thats actually more like the curvature of the spine...
Would that require two spline IKs, for the differing curves, or would one cover it?
Is this the kind of curve you mean (shot 3)? Edit: in reverse! still waking up!
Leon: Cheers...Im afraid you lost me a little though
Whats an o rig? If I follow you correctly, does that mean you will be creating one rig and then transferring it to other meshes?This guy is uv'd. I did it in ZBrush, quite early on...just 'morph uv'd' to double check, and...yep. Just an auto uving with uv master so the seam runs straight down his front middle...not great for texturing but for what you mean I think, yes, he has uvs.
All: Update on some more time I spent on him last night. I added two spline Iks, one for the spine and one for the neck. Each curve had 4 cvs (not sure if you can change how many cvs the spline curves have)...and I was told two take two cvs at a time and attach a cluster to them, as it makes it easier to control (rather than grabbing the cvs). I think these clusters also get their own manipulator later on. I have added custom attributes to the fingers such as 'finger spread', 'thumb rotation', and 'curls' for all the fingers, which seem to be working well.
The main issue is with the right hand (as you look at it.... - his left), which has 'jumped' out of place a couple of times. I was told to make sure 'sticky' was turned off when adding the Ik handles in the arms, but then to turn it on later, when the handles had been parented and had their pivots and effectors set in place. I read that if sticky was turned on when placing them originally, this might have caused the bones to move, but I know for a fact that sticky was off when I placed them. So whats happened to the hand I dont know. I have manually moved the finger joints back into place a couple of times, so the absolute symmetry with the left hand has gone.
Late last night, after one of these 'jumping' incidents' I replaced all the finger joints, clicked 'set preferred angle', and they all jumped away again, to a slightly different rotation than they had before'. Annoying. In shot two, I have drawn over the left hand the rough position to which it jumped.Shame too after Id felt id done a good job of setting all the local rotations of the finger joints so that the fingers bent well.
So I think the rig has a fundamental flaw somewhere. Im going to press on with it though, foolish maybe, but it's experience I guess?
