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Character riggs pivot point follow Character?

Does anyone know if there's a way to have the character riggs group nodes pivot point follow the character. :confused: I've grouped all the control...

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by christobal

21-11-2003|06:43 PM

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Mocap!

HI all, Does anyone know the process of importing Mocap data and attaching it to a skeleton in Maya?

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by stephen.h1

23-11-2003|09:30 AM

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Maya 5 & reverse foot????

Hi everyone, Wondering if anybody has a clue as to what is going on here? I've been trying to set up a simple reverse foot setup in maya 5, i've...

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by ade90054

28-11-2003|02:53 PM

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Skelton unbinding from skin

I have several legs and arms, each one being bound to a seperate skeleton with Rigid Bind. I get everything bound together and save my scene, then...

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by Exdaix

02-12-2003|12:12 AM

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duplicating after binding

Hi, I was trying to duplicate this model so that I could create blenshapes for the facial animation. But when I duplicated the model, I was...

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by nspiratn

03-12-2003|10:09 PM

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IK problem

I'm creating the skeleton for a character I have made in Maya, but am having trouble getting IK to work on his arms. I made a skeleton for a model...

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by mtmckinley

06-12-2003|07:18 PM

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adding blends after binding skin?

Can you add blend shapes after you have your model bound to a rig?

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by mtmckinley

08-12-2003|05:16 AM

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neck rigging

is there a way to setup the neck of my T. rex so that I don't have to position him joint by joint or cv by cv? for instance, can I just place...

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by PilotLtKettch

09-12-2003|09:49 AM

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Hand rig, rotation of Joints, please help

Hi, http://louiseeaton.com/rotations.jpg Please see screenshot. I know this is a basic question but I may be losing it and cannot seem...

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by mtmckinley

10-12-2003|12:08 AM

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FK_IK in 5.0

I have gone through the manuals,documentation and help file that came with 5.0, but i can't figure out how to go between ik and fk. Can someone...

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by 3djoe

10-12-2003|07:14 PM

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Joint, bend, bind problems - HELP

Hi, Thanks to everyone here for your help. Heres my newest issue. Please see screenshot http://louiseeaton.com/members.jpg The hand has...

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by capella62874

11-12-2003|01:14 AM

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trying to move/rotate poly hand/joints/bones

I am having trouble moving/rotating the hand... Here the hand is in position, i need to rotate it 90 degrees so its facing up.... ...

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by capella62874

11-12-2003|08:38 PM

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How do I mirror skin weights from one side of a model to the other?

Title says it all...,

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by GreyFox

12-12-2003|07:57 PM

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Example of skeleton setup for a game engine

This character with skeleton and with all controllers (included sneak-walk animation, keyframe) (for Maya 4.0. or higher, with Maya 5 controllers...

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by pal

16-12-2003|01:33 AM

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rotational node problem

Hi After rigging my character, I went to rotate the shoulder joint down to put the arm by the characters side and noticed that the visual rotation...

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by dannyngan

18-12-2003|09:20 AM

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how do i model a head with a mouth that can be opend and closed during annimaiton

1: I have made previous models with the mouth "sealed" but now I am working on a project that requires my charictor to be able to talk... so I need...

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by -<{ JB }>-

18-12-2003|01:18 PM

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walk cycle

Hi, here's a walk I've been working on. I have a feeling that it looks a but stiff, not sure why though. Any suggestions? thanks.

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by dannyngan

19-12-2003|10:34 AM

Replies: 13

Animation Controls

Hi all, hope everyone had a good christmas :) Just a quick question, does anybody know how I can add my character animation controls to a layer...

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by ade90054

28-12-2003|11:11 PM

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pick something up?

okay. I have a character that who's body is modelled in a single mesh, and I want him to pick up a ball and then throw it. Pretty straight forward,...

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by skyzeyez

29-12-2003|12:43 AM

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bake keyframes?

Hi all, Anybody know if it's possible to bake out the animation that the graph editor creates when you use ' cycle with offset ' so say i've got a...

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by ade90054

29-12-2003|12:20 PM

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Set Driven Key: problem with two attributes driving a single object

:banghead: Here's one that I can't find in the docs (so far...). I have a joint which rotates in X and Z (not in Y). I have an object whose...

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by JulianBT

31-12-2003|02:12 PM

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Flowing Sleeves

Hi, Anyone got a way of rigging a human character with flowing sleeves - like batwing sleeves, only they're wide at the wrist as well. I'm...

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by JulianBT

31-12-2003|07:47 PM

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Boxing render from a few months back

A HOO finaly figured out how to compress my animations down small enough to put up renders... I was able to get all them nice and small the baseball...

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by Kurt

02-01-2004|01:01 AM

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channel box attribute colours?

Hi Ive just recently upgraded to using maya 5 from 4 and have noticed that the colours of the attribute change when setting keys, when animating. I...

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