Character Rigging question

# 1 11-09-2004 , 05:42 AM

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Hello.. In the tutorial on Character rigging, Mike's Joint tool had small circles whereas mine has large ones.

May I know how do I make the circles smaller ?

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# 2 11-09-2004 , 06:41 AM

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you meen the size of the joints ??

You can set the size of them in the prefrances.

Window > Settings/Prefrances > Prefrances

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set your joint size to something smaller than what you have.

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# 3 11-09-2004 , 06:46 AM

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thank you.. user added image

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# 4 11-09-2004 , 02:47 PM

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Under the Display menu there's a Joint Size command also.

-Mike
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# 5 07-01-2005 , 10:22 AM

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Great Rigging Tutorial Mike but it seems to have stoped at part 6.

Its also very hard to find unless you search for all tutorials by M.Mckinley.

In part 6 you talk about setting driven keys and you will show how in the next part, but I cant find a next part anywhere..

Has this now been dropped ? If so, which tut would you recommend that shows the same sort of thing ..

I want to animate a hand on a Quake 3 character so he can make signs with his fingers. The animation is going to be baked into the vertices as I need to export it to MD3 format. Is it best to use blend shapes for the animation of the fingers or set driven key, so the fingers curl/raise and the hand moves

Cheers

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# 6 07-01-2005 , 12:07 PM

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Kurt has a great tutorial on hand control which worked great for an animation i did. Im sure that tutorial will help you if you want to make your character do signs with his hands.

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