Wingrigg

[jakerupert]

Tried to rigg this batwing with TSM 2, but have no idea, how I will have to psition the mesh and how to weight the cps.

Any ideas how to best do this?

 

Jake

[Morgan]

Well, you'll want to start by rotating and repositioning the wing bones to fit your model as closely as possible. The "fingers" of the wing can just be assigned to the appropriate bones, but of course the tricky part is the "skin" between them. Honestly, I think your mesh is denser than it needs to be. You have four splines between each "finger," but I think you could probably get a similar result with one or maybe two. That would make weighting a lot easier.

[jakerupert]

Well, thank you very much!

I managed to get this far for the time being................

 

;>) Jake

dragonfly280705.mov

[jakerupert]

and this far..................

seagullfly280705.mov

[John Bigboote]

Thats COOL jake! I think the rig is working for you... one observation...I can't help it... the feet need to 'tuck-up' under the body a little more when in flight. It always amazes me how birds can 'hide' their feet once aloft.

[kuep]

how have you made out so far?

I have most of the rigs figured out but the bird setup just isnt working for me.

 

Have you been able to fold the wings up properly?

 

If you got it working can you put together a small tutorial on what you picked in the rigger, placement of the bones in the bird, weighting, and how make the wings work with the controls.

Or anyone else that has figured this out.

I tried the rig on the pigeon.

 

 

tx

 

a concerned citizen!