Digital humans the art of the digital double
Ever wanted to know how digital doubles are created in the movie industry? This course will give you an insight into how it's done.
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25-05-2003
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Mech Rigging
what I want to be able to do Is have the whole lower leg rotate on the pivot point i highlighted with a target, along the axis of the arrow's ive drawn. only problem is I want to have the 3 support beam things alter themselves accordingly, possibly by bending in the middle. I'm really new to this kind of thing, and any help would be great.
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26-05-2003
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It looks to me like the support beams should work like pistons!?
If you think that is a good idea this setup might work.. While you try to forgive my photoshop skills i will put some words to the image.. if it's not self explanatory.
Make sure that the upper and lower parts of the pistons are seperate geometry. Parent the lower part to the rotating balljoint and the upper to the.. well upper part of the foot
Make sure that the pivots are at the right positions. Apply an aimconstraint to the lower piston part and have it look at the upper part of the piston. Works?? Please let me know if it worked or sucked.. or both!
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ohh.. looks like you might have to change the geometry to not have intersection.. sorry about that
Would love to see the whole model! I absolutely suck at machine designs so I'm allready in awe!
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26-05-2003
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Also you should be able to rotate the foot in any direction.. I think..
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Sorry about that! I'll see if I can make up for my wrongdoings and come up with a worthy reply
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For the aim constraint thing to work you need to have both the upper and the lower part of of the piston Aiming at eack other! Silly me.
Anyways I included 2 files to look at. Made it with bones for the sake of ease and also to be able to use IK. Foot bones 2 aims is the above example fixed with the extra aim constraint. Foot bones IK is the bending solution. Maybe it can be made without but i would just use bones.. :mingun: sorry joints.. and parent my geometry to them. It doesn't look like the upper part of the rods are surpose to rotate at the socket but they have to with my two solutions. Maybe someone else has better ideas! Anyway I'll check out the mech rigging thing and than i think it's time for no more ****ups and some 