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21-10-2007
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Actually, if you could post a screen capture of the leg rig you have set up and a description of the way you are handling the piston/cylinder section that would be great.
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That is perfect.
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Hydro Animation
i spend two Days to get a full working rig for the cude little fella. well, after all it was more than one day only to get the hydros to work.
I keyt out a short animation (no i didn't tweak any tangents) to see how it looks like.
you can DL it at
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btw... maybe i am dumb as hell, but i think the rig ahead won't work well. U use a csSolver, and it will bend the hydro joint. but most interessting - how you gonna move the hydros without messing up the rest?
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just nosy
would be really nice if you could post who you manage to slide in the hydros in a walkcycle. Since i am still a n00B in animation maybe i do something completly wrong.
I tried the rig. Parentet the hydros to the hydro joint and slided it along the y axis of the joint. Worked pretty good to the point i tried to parent the ikHandle to some control curve. The endeffctor wants to maintain its position at the controlcurve (which is correct in terms on point constraints), while the y axis slide bends the upper joint down instead of moving up in y.
I would appreaciate any hint to fix that issue.
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Re: just nosy
That makes 2 of us.Originally posted by mac762
Since i am still a n00B in animation maybe i do something completly wrong.
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07-11-2007
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The hydros really toss a spanner into the works. I have a version that is working on mine. But I am sure it is not anywhere close to how it should really be rigged.
I plan on animating it over the winter break comming up in a couple weeks.
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Since it is controlled via IK, i can't rotate it manually.
but... you can't have it all, do you ?
Anyhow, you're right, i would love to see how, for example Kurt who's baby this is after all, would do the rig.
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09-11-2007
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