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You are scary, Will! I'll have to buy those tutorials as well...that is fantastic.

I found a smartskin that needed to be fixed on the tongue controls. If you have a previous installation in a character, you can just replace the "TongueU-R-LNull" smartskin. What this smartskin does is to move the tongue up/down (also make sure there is a -100 end to the up/down slider...it's only labeled as TongueUp") and left/right sliders when moving the "TongueU-R-LNull" on the FACE controls. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. --------------------------------- EDIT --------------------------------- The InstallRig plugin is located here.

Nice, Mike! Cool solution.

Very cool, Mike! Color me curious.

Oh! I was looking in the post where you mentioned it...I'll take a look. ------------------------------------ EDIT ------------------------------------ The "New Employee.mdl" isn't in the project, just "Warehouse outside" and "ground" models.

It doesn't look like it let you attach it in this section of the forum...or something.

I found a small thing that needed correcting in the fingers. The first finger bones and the finger controller bones weren't at the exact same angle and it caused a minor problem. If anyone finds any other problems, let me know. The InstallRig plugin is located here.

It's tough to tell from just the image, if you posted the rigged model it would be a help in deciphering it.

I'm not understanding...sorry about that. Do you mean a "kinematic" constraint like in an IK leg or arm setup? If you present the complete problem, you'll probably get a better answer...at least you should.

To keep a bone from moving use a "translate limit" and set all of the "X", "Y" and "Z" to "0". The rotation can be limited with an "euler limit". Hope that helps.

Make sure that the "show manipulators" button is pressed, hit "S" for scale, type in the "X" value and then hold the "Ctrl" key when you hit enter (you can't enter the values while holding down the "Ctrl" key). Repeat this for the "Y" and "Z" values. Hope that helps, Jon.

Fantastic, David! Did you enter it in the competition or was this just practice?

Have you tried importing the objects that won't be directly animated as "action objects"?

The InstallRig plugin is located here. I'll start putting the link in the posts when the rig gets updated, I should have done that. Sorry for any inconvenience.

The JPEG wasn't included with the file when I got it that I can remember...it would be either a rotoscope or a decal that you had assigned. All you would have to do is point at the JPEG in question. What I did was rotate the character where it had its' feet pointing toward the ground, rotated the leg bones so that they all faced forward, moved and adjusted the thigh and bicep orient bones, deleted the "balance" and "steady" bones and poses, reset the compensate on the feet control bones, adjusted the positioning of the bicep, forearm, thigh and calf bones so that the joints met and adjusted the positioning of the IK foot control nulls. Hope that helps.

it says i cannot load a file with that extension so i zipp[attachmentid=18591]ed it. please tell me what you think the problem is. Hope this is helpful...it's what I had time to do.

It looks alright to me, Charles. Weight it when you get time and then post it or e-mail it to me.

First, nice model, Paul! The hair problem, I don't have a clue...that is strange. On the head....what rig are you using? I'm thinking that no matter what rig it is it'll probably take actually looking at it to figure out that problem. Wow, I was absolutely no help at all...not yet at least.

I'm guessing that the attachment didn't take?

You won't have to go through the installation process, just re-model the areas you want to modify and then assign the CP's. You can use the present Squetchy Thom as a guide for what bones to use in the weighting...it's pretty much just the two "thigh_geom" bones, the two "thigh_fan_geom" bones and the "stomach_geom" bone.

Thanks for taking a look at that, Mark! I just got the chance to look at it and it's already done, coolness. As for the modeling on Squetchy Thom, Charles. You're right about him needing a few changes. When I initially modified the original Thom, I was trying to change as little as possible. I had to add the hands so that there would be a working example of the rig, and I needed a model to work with when testing the it. The hat had to be added so that you could tell which way he's looking (it's a modified version of the cap on the CD) and I added a couple of spline rings to divide the torso a little better. I'll see about improving the lower torso on a future Squetch Rig release...if you want to modify the splines and re-weight it, I won't stop you (post it in this thread or e-mail it to me when you're done and I'll use that for the future releases of Squetchy Thom). You can save the Choreography Action out by itself by right mouse clicking on the Action and selecting "Export as Action". It looks like what confused you about manipulating the thigh fan bone was that you keyed all of the bones in the model, that would make some of the bones that shouldn't be manipulated show up in your Timeline.

If you could post the model, it would help people find your problems. Without it, they would just be shooting in the dark when making suggestions.

Hmmm, I'll double check the right hand. I haven't had any problems though...maybe there's something I missed. Is that the Squetchy Thom that comes with the installation versions, Charles? If so, I need to look at the butt...it definitely shouldn't do that. If you still have the Action, could you post it? As I'm typing this, I think I know what the problem is, but the Action would help confirm my suspicions. The hips geometry bones have been replaced with two thigh fan bones. To do the weighting on the butt, use a combination of the thigh fan, thigh and stomach geometry bones...you can actually get a better look than what you could with the hips geometry bones.

This was a problem that was caused by the baking of the constraints (it manifested itself in the Hand Gizmo controls mostly)...I thought it went completely away, but it looks like it's still sorta there. Once you save the model, I'm guessing AM corrects the error on the model. I know that when they were making muscle poses for TWO that there were other errors that got compensated for after saving. I haven't had this happen to me in quite a while...I'm not sure why it happened, Charles. I'm glad you got it sorted out though. If you run into any other problems, let me know.

Yessir, 'X' should have its' compensate set at "0" on the bicep. Sorry for any confusion on any of the other stuff...things have been changing pretty fast in the last couple of months, I'm just trying to keep up with them.