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| Tonight I was making tail. It consisted of 14 bones. I had read the documentation and was aware that Forward Kinematics was suggested as the method of animation. As I'd read a few tutorials before where it had said to the effect:" ..this is one method", I figured I'd try a IK Spine Solver, as the animation of items like this comes out much smoother then trying to individually adjust a bone and setting a keyframe without mass work in the curve editor.
Well this is one of those times that what the tutorial says it meant. Since the staff here uses 3dMax(in whatever form of a version), wouldn't it be wise to add at least a few of the animation techniques that Max offers allowable in iClone?
I mean who doesn't like the use of helpers and IK to do their dirty work. FK is far to time consuming, and degrades the effectiveness of the animation pipeline. Sure, we can do like I did and use a copy of the rig and rotoscope the bone movements from the solver version to the FK version, then smooth it out in curves, but it would be cherry if the power of 3dMax could really be used here instead of the manual labor.
Just a thought.
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| I don't know whether this ever got aswered anywhere else. I have tried Hi Solvers and iClone does not seem to like this at all. Can anyone shed any light on this? Peter? Mike?
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| Popeye (11/14/2009)
I don't know whether this ever got answered anywhere else. I have tried Hi Solvers and iClone does not seem to like this at all. Can anyone shed any light on this? Peter? Mike?Just wanted to bring this back up as it seemed to have got lost. Any chance of getting this answered?
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| Popeye (11/14/2009)
I don't know whether this ever got aswered anywhere else. I have tried Hi Solvers and iClone does not seem to like this at all. Can anyone shed any light on this? Peter? Mike?Still no answer or "I will pass this on to support" Just have to keep knocking it back up I suppose!!!
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