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# 1 19-06-2008 , 08:57 PM
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simulating muscles in maya

hi!

I am looking for some tutorials concerning the simulation of muscles in maya!

Does anyone know some good tutorials for me?


Thanks in advance

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# 2 20-06-2008 , 01:39 AM
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What version? 2008 Ext 1 has muscle built in, you need to be a gold member to get it though.


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# 3 07-07-2008 , 04:43 AM
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Hi!

I'm using maya 2008 but I am not a gold member...

are there other ways to simulate muscles in maya?

I'm searching for tutorials...

# 4 07-07-2008 , 05:04 AM
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i beleive the tutorials talk about using spheres as deformers or something like that

take a look at the tutorials that came with maya, i swear i saw it mentioned in there

# 5 07-07-2008 , 06:15 AM
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The old way of sumultaing muscle in Maya was a total pain in the a**e to set up and would have been dealt with by either the modeller or rigger.

As far as I ever read deformers were used to push and pull spheres or created objects using SDKs and MEL (i think) to allow a bone joint to bend and at the same time deform the muscle, then the outer layer of skin would be forced to react using soft bodies ( i may have this totaly wrong, but this is how I read it).

https://chrisevans3d.com/tutorials/maya_muscle.htm

May help and https://video-tutorials-kovach.blogsp...e-rigging.html may help...


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# 6 07-07-2008 , 08:56 AM
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if you do have have 2008 exp1 then theres a digital tutors tutorial in the rigging section

# 7 18-07-2008 , 03:13 AM
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the muscle module is quite complicated.., the 'old' way is easy.., but too much to explain.., yes, set driven keys on geometry scale under the 'skin'


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