Complex UV Layout in Maya
Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character
# 1 23-04-2003 , 12:13 PM
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Constraints

I've been having trouble and I was hoping one of you fine animators could help me. I've got this scene where a man knocks a cup off of the table and I'm having trouble animating the eyes. I set up 2 locators for the eyes and constrained them to the cup so that they eyes look at the cup the whole time, but over the last few frames, I want his eyes to look somewhere else. At the point I want the eyes to move I set a key converting the constraint node to blocking and then tried keyframing the new position for the locators at the final frame, but it tells me they are still constrained to the cup. Any ideas how I can get round this coz it's winding me up now.

# 2 23-04-2003 , 04:47 PM
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instead of constraining to the cup, aim them at a pair of locators instead. You can then animate the locators and the eyes will follow.

# 3 23-04-2003 , 05:47 PM
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set up another set of contraints and contrain the eys to them AS WELL, then you can adjust weights and switch between which contraints u want to use


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# 4 24-04-2003 , 12:10 PM
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Cheers Nem. I tried it out last night and it worked sweet.What a clever lad you are....user added image

# 5 24-04-2003 , 05:17 PM
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awwww thx user added image


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