TSM: neck bone for a neckless creature

[CreativeAustinYankee]

Hi,

 

I've created a robot and I'm adapting the bone structure to be used with TSM.

 

He has a torso and a head with an antenna on top of that. The antenna I'm going to ignore for this.

 

But he really doesn't have a neck. I presume that the required neck bone needs some splines attached to it? Can I do that and make the neck unmoving?

 

Any advice would be appreciated. Let me know if you need to take a look at the model, I can post it.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Steve P.

[jon]

i don't imagine that you have to attach control points to the neck bone, but unless you lock the neck bone down, the head will behave like it still has a neck.

 

you can try attaching all the head's cps to the neck bone, and ignore the head bone altogether, but that might produce some weird results too.

 

-jon

[KenH]

Read the docs. It says you can delete any bones you like. So I guess that would include the neck too. As long as the naming and heirarchy is right you should be fine.

[CreativeAustinYankee]

Thanks for the input.

 

Ken, the docs say that at least 3 spine bones and a neck bone are required.

[Morgan]

Steve,

 

You shouldn't delete the neck bone, but you don't have to use it. If you make it very short and don't assign any points to it, I think you'll get the effect you're looking for.

[CreativeAustinYankee]

Thanks again, guys.

 

I ran it through TSM and, aside from a modeling problem I have to fix, I'm happy with the result.

 

Morgan, not assigning cps to the bones was the right approach.