I've done it by just duplicating the RIG.......thing that will differ is naming of every bone.......you can have as many characters using the same rig in the same scene but its just the extra work...

Sure thing! Hey I am still trying to tweak/adjust the hands/fingers and I need to rotate the pivots on the fingers so they align correctly and bend right, but am not sure how to do that. I can move...

I am still learning this stuff and am really want to thank you and all of you for helping on this.

P.S. Maya is quite cool! :)

As I continued invesitgating why it bends wrong I decided to try something that I thought might be the problem.....because my arm model consists of two meshes I thought maybe the elbow joint my be...

Here it is, I used a locator and I guess I did it right? As you can see in the pic my arm still bends wrong and can't to seem to figure out why....though I bended elbow slightly it still bends the...

Hello NeoStrider / erictacti,

What confuses me is that I did bend the elbow a bit and after adding the IK Handle it bends the opposite..like depicted in that picture I posted above.......
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Hi all, I am trying to rig some arms along with IK Handles but I stumbled a roadblock and can't figure out why my arms are not bending right........here's a picture to show what I mean..
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Sure thing, I tried to add you but couldn't....an error just kept popping up.......

Try getting ahold of me at my MSN at unrealprojectz[at]hotmail.com or try visiting our forums at...

Hey, not bad at all...I like it! You may need to create LOD versions of it for the world model...3rd person view and pickup...

P.S. I am also working on a HL2 Source Mod....here's our website..
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Hi all, this is my first Maya 8 interior scene. This was an assignment for a Maya course I am currently in......

http://images4.pictiger.com/thumbs/41/c1f3a6afcc3677e2e9987a096173fa41.th.jpg...