Have you been thinking about making a kit about facial setup?

cheers
s.

I’m going through your really great tutorials and noticed, that the script ‘js_createSkelGeo’ doesn’t work for me.

Error message:
string $tmp[0];
clear $tmp;
js_createSkelGeo $tmp;
// Error: string $tmp[0]; //
// Error: Line 1.15: Invalid redeclaration of variable “$tmp” as a different type. //
// Error: js_createSkelGeo $tmp; //
// Error: Line 3.22: Cannot cast data of type string to string[]. //

Thanks for any help!

Stefan

Cheers!!!

I am working on a rig for a video game that I am making with some friends. I want to utilize the IK Stretch Spline on the rig, but the game engine we are using requires me to bake the animations on the actual skeleton before I import it in, so when I animate, I bake the animation and when I get rid of the constraints the head does not follow. I think it does not follow because the rig isn’t fully connected because with the IK Stretch Spine, it is a broken apart rig. Is there any way to make that a complete rig? Can I have 2 rigs (broken apart and whole) and somehow constrain them to each other or something? The volume control on the IK Stretch spline would be awesome to use, I just need some help getting it into Unity Game Engine.

Thanks for any insight or tips you can give Jason.

Thx allot.

Hope your well.

Sorry to be a pain but I just wanted to pick your brain regarding the Animator Friendly Rigging dvd. I’ve been following the tutorials and they’ve been great but I’m at a stage where I am mirroring one side to the other and I seem to get many problems that arise. One in particular is applying the Stretchy IK to the arm – either it does’nt create the node network correctly or it places the stretch on the translate Z instead of the intended X.

Now i’m thinking it would be best to just re-create the other side from new rather than mirroring the joints over (use them as a base to make sure the new joints are in the correct place though) but in doing so, I would lose the function of the mirrored behaviour – which I know is not the right way to go.

Any help would be great.
All the best.
J

I’m interested in getting your AFR tut’s. I have the student version of Maya 2011 Win 64. Were your tutorials created with an earlier version? I’m sure the concept and theory will transfer over, but just wondering if newer versions since the tut’s creation will have so much more powerful tools to them that might not get covered. Thanks for any help on this.

You will want to un-parent the arm geo before changing it otherwise it will flip as well. Hope this helps.

John

Thanks!
Ali

Fast animation rigs is more about making rigs that work quickly, not how to create rigs quickly. If you’re under the gun to get rigs up and going quick for commercials, I’d recommend two things.. first, get yourself a quick rig building toolkit that will get you what you need fast so you can get the work for your clients done. Raf’s Setup Machine is pretty good to start with: http://www.anzovin.com/products/tsm2maya.html

Then, I’d recommend getting Animator Friendly Rigging so you can learn more about what types of things you’d like to do, and get more instruction about how to build rigs. This way you have a method of delivering what you need right away, and also a path for how to better your skills in the future.

Cheers

Camilo

@jason

thanks for the interest!

Cheers

Camilo

I’m having a problem getting the length attribute for the fingers set up correctly. When I run the Length script, I get weird scaling for every finger except the middle one. It seems that some of the joints in the other fingers are scaling along the z axis instead of x. The joint orientations seem to all be the same, so I’m not sure why it’s scaling in z for some joints and in x for others, even within the same finger.

I tried taking a look inside the js_SetDrivenKeyLength script, even though I know very little about MEL, and it seems there’s a js_GetJointAxis.mel that gets the axis, but I can’t find it in the scripts folder. That’s when I hit the end of my knowledge!

Any help you could give would on this issue would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for a great rigging series, and continuing the support on AFR even with your busy schedule!

cheers!

First off…you’re rigging series is amazing! Seriously awesome stuff. I had to learn rigging as fast as possible for a project I was working on and it was made very easy and painless thanks to your teaching. So, thank you very much!

I have a question about the “js_matchObj.mel” script included in the dvd series. When I try to run the script after selecting the “ik_hand_anim” as instructed, I get this error: // Error: Cannot find procedure “js_getAttachedObjects”. I don’t know virtually anything about MEL scripting right now, so I can’t figure out how to fix it. Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for everything!

The lessons are built for Maya, but the concepts apply to all packages.