Swaying Objects

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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# 1 29-04-2004 , 04:56 PM

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I have these stork things that I have modeled and I want them to sway as if in a breeze.

I was just wondering how that would be done, would it involved dynamics of somthing?

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# 2 29-04-2004 , 05:10 PM

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Depending on what is in you seen you might be able to use a lattice

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# 3 30-04-2004 , 08:08 AM

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Right, im afraid im going to have to ask you to explain that user added image

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# 4 01-05-2004 , 06:38 PM

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Softbody and bones might work as well, can you post a sample pic design?

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# 5 02-05-2004 , 09:31 AM

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Well here is a rough picture of what I will be animating.

Hope it helps

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# 6 03-05-2004 , 03:56 PM

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Turn them into softbody and paint weights on them.

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# 7 04-05-2004 , 11:42 AM

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And then after that I put a field on it like wind?

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# 8 04-05-2004 , 06:43 PM

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yup, or turbulence.

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# 9 24-05-2004 , 07:51 PM

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thanks now i also learned something.......

i usualy painstakingly keymate things when theve been ikbone-d

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