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
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Anyway, I had some problems, but I fixed them. I don’t know if I’ll be working on it tomorrow, because of the day off.
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The problem is, when I parent it to the curve it screws up the rig and gets rid of the IK handle that I placed (between the top joint and the bottom joint).
So is there a workaround to this?
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ran in the same problem, but nobody here could help, so i did it on my own. Take a look at the animation if it is what you want.
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mac762, do you have the file for the one you made?
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I finished the model but never rigged it because although I could get the pistons figured out I just could not figure how to do the rest of the rigging and I cannot find any good tutorials that cover rigging a mechanical thing like a mech.
From the looks of Kurt's Maya 8.5 mech tutorial the mech has simple joints that can be simply parented. All the mechs I have built have pistons and things that have to be rigged.
I guess it would have some bits I could learn, but I'd love to see a tutorial on rigging this mech.
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sure, you can download ist @ https://www.macs3d.com/downloads/leganimation.mb
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mac762, the problem is, there’s no IK handle in there. Also, there’s not an easy way to get them back to their original position.
Well, I finished up the rig and posed it. Now I’m going to try to animate it.
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If you look on my site, you‘ll find the HD pic (which I would highly recommend doing).
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maybe the enemy would have died from laughter while watching this metalbox stumbling across the battlefield, trying to keep on its feet. But i did not dare to try it out :headbang:
so i quit animating it, gave him a texture and put it in my museum of useless garbage..hehe
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Well, since I already set it up, I don’t feel like re-rigging it. I’ve finished the basics of the animation, now I just need to tinker with it and make it more advanced.Originally posted by gster123
Dont know if youve seen it but if you google theres a tutorial on rigging a pistion, if it dosnet work as you wanted I would be inclined to use a SDK that uses the IK movement to drive the SDK of the piston.
Hopefully I’ll have this finished by the end of the week.
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If you look on my site, you’ll find the HD pic (which I would highly recommend doing) and the animation.
Does anyone have anything to say, before I create the Finished thread?
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I would make only one suggestion. You might want to scale the UV's on the leg parts up a bit so the camo pattern gets a little smaller and matches the scale on the main turret.
PS - I have been working on the piston linkage thing but I ran into a problem with this rig. If I use my aim constraint method to keep the pistons and cyclinders pointed at wach other then I run into wacked out behavior when I try to parent those parts to the joints. So I will have to rethink how to rig these.
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Do you want my project file, so you can see the rig?Originally posted by ctbram
PS - I have been working on the piston linkage thing but I ran into a problem with this rig. If I use my aim constraint method to keep the pistons and cyclinders pointed at wach other then I run into wacked out behavior when I try to parent those parts to the joints. So I will have to rethink how to rig these.
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