Been doing some experimenting with changing the number of fingers.
First and formost and most likely easy for all to see. I am not an expert. Rather, I am an experimenter. I will use the tools I have to try and achieve what it is I want.
CC is definitely not perfect and there are many possible ways of doing things that it doesn't have. I certainly get frustrated with it from time to time.
But I also must say that the majority of my frustrations with CC are due to me not understanding how to do things in it rather than it not being possible to do it. So far I have always found a way to achieve what I want by experimenting with it. All I can do here is express my views in accordance with my own desires. Just because I find it useful doesn't mean other people will and that is peoples rights
Like all tools (in my opinion) it takes a lot of time and effort to learn how to use it to achieve your desires. So I am just demonstrating what I achieve with my knowledge
Anyway, here is my first attempt and I just did it according to how I thought It might be possible. There are probably other ways that I haven't thought of and don't know and maybe they are better?
I did this in Blender. Exported the character as FBX. In blender I selected the vertices of the thumb and small finger and scaled them down until all the vertices were together. Then I moved them to the middle of the inside of the hand. Then I moved other vertices to hide the hole where the thumb and finger used to be. And then I adjusted and smoothed the vertices to get the hand to suit it only having 3 fingers.
Just experimenting here so it needs more work. Changing the characters hands in blender, importing the modified character back to cc, sending it to iClone and animating it took me just under an hour.
I also used opacity mapping on the thumbs and small fingers but forgot to use opacity on their nails. They can be seen in the animation. Also the edges hiding the holes of where the thumbs were can be seen but I have several ideas on how that can be hidden too. One good thing about CC is once the 3 finger hand works well it can be created as a morph in CC that can then be applied to any character in seconds.
I also think CC3 is going to make this sort of stuff easier and better, but again I can only guess. As others have stated, we really know as much about CC3 as you do. Wont really know its abilities until I get I, watch its tutorials and start experimenting with it according to my own methods. Waiting for CC3 before I try improving this and making into a morph. I certainly want it.
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6 Years Ago by
Delerna