Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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Controlling animation with sliders.
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Is it possible to tie the opening/closing of a finger to a slider, where 0 is fully extended, and 1 is fully curled?
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I would suggest you just make a hand skeleton then bind the hand and use the set driven key to make your finger shapes. Using blend shapes on the hand will take you a very long time.
Its faster to make the skeleton for the fingers and bind, then making each hand shape.
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Go to this site and look at the last 2 projects in the Neeks section, he does a pretty good beginner project with using Add Attributes and Set Drivin Key.
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OK - Youre right, I wouldnt actually USE blend shapes for an opening/closing fist, I was really just saying that it seems that you can only access the neat control of sliders (which I like) with the blend shapes function.
Or am I wrong?
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Once you use the set driven key to make the movements, you will have the index curl attribute in the channel box. If you select the index curl, then click the middle mouse botton move it left to right, the curl would work kinda like the blend shape sliders.
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Time to go and implement all these techniques now I guess.
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