Gerry Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 I'm going through installing the 2008 rig and it's going very well, but at one point I did something and I wonder if it will cause problems and if so what I should look for. On page 70 where it goes "Plug ins>Wizards>Install Rig..." when I did that, my "Install Rig" doesn't have an ellipsis, and when I clicked Install Rig nothing happened. So I clicked it again. Still nothing, so I've been proceeding to do cp weighting and it's going fine, but did I plant a time bomb for myself later by clicking it twice? Is something supposed to happen when you click "Install Rig"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsjustme Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 I'm going through installing the 2008 rig and it's going very well, but at one point I did something and I wonder if it will cause problems and if so what I should look for. On page 70 where it goes "Plug ins>Wizards>Install Rig..." when I did that, my "Install Rig" doesn't have an ellipsis, and when I clicked Install Rig nothing happened. So I clicked it again. Still nothing, so I've been proceeding to do cp weighting and it's going fine, but did I plant a time bomb for myself later by clicking it twice? Is something supposed to happen when you click "Install Rig"? I don't think there are any ellipsis', so that isn't an issue, Gerry. When you run the plugin, it re-parents bones according to the instructions in their names, deletes any bones with "INSTALL" in their name and hides all bones that don't have "geom" in their name. Running the InstallRig plugin multiple times shouldn't affect anything. Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted November 20, 2012 Author Share Posted November 20, 2012 thanks David, and that reminds me, I need to look at your eye modeling tut again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 ELLIPSIS !!! ... so that's what it's called. (had to google that one) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted November 23, 2012 Author Share Posted November 23, 2012 I've got the rig in and it went great. What if anything do I need to turn on or off to do smart skinning? I tried it once with everything turned off but the smartskin misbehaved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve392 Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Gerry you need to turn off the IK for the bone you are going to smart skinn ,ie bicept turn off IK for that arm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted November 24, 2012 Author Share Posted November 24, 2012 Thanks Steve! I've got the LiteFace in, and it went just swimmingly right up until the very end, and I've got one wonky cheekbone that I don't know how to fix, or what to turn on or off to do so. Can anyone suggest a fix for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DArtZ Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 this face rig stuff seems like a bit of extra work to set up a face rig in AM with the tools we have available dont you think? When I set up my characters for facial animation work, I just use bones for the lower jaw, upper jaw, tonge, eyeballs, upper head with appropriate control points assigned to these bones (via named groups.) then I create lipshapes and faces shapes saved to poses all with dboxes. the pose sliders then can call these shapes which interpolate witheachother to make a wide variety of needed poses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted November 25, 2012 Author Share Posted November 25, 2012 You know Mike, I've been meaning to try that approach and had forgotten about it. This would be a good time to do so. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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