RAG DOLL COLLISION ANIMATIONS FOR ICLONE 8 & 7
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Ghost Origins

My latest Feature length film created with Iclone.

My IMDB listing
Anabran Abdhul Quarnain - IMDb

Hey. 

I can promise (in the future) ill do fully working tutorial with RIGIFY (Rigging CC3) (Body, Face-teeth/eyes) and later RETARGETING your motion. 

Obviously its more easier to USE Auto-Rig PRO but you have to spend ~40$  - im not saying this a wrong way, depends on you. (But usually im type o man "DIY")  

That's really useful for me.

Firstly: The reason the sliders stop working is because you deleted the armature, it finds the objects and materials to update by looking through the child objects of the armature and I never considered the possibility that someone would want to delete it. That's something I can fix.
(Or you can export the character as an OBJ in a T-pose or A-pose, it will keep tracking of OBJ objects and there's no armature.)

Now then, so the work flow of Rigify and Autorig Pro: both seem to throw out the original bones and build a new armature from scratch. I don't really want to do that, because it also throws away all the skinning on the outfits and the hair and I want to keep all of that, or as much as possible.

What I want to do is generate the control rig around the original Character Creator bones, this may mean having to build my own control rig. Basically make it work like the bit at 3.06 in your video, press the 'Generate Rig' button and it's all done. It would be nice to just call another add-on to do it but it's looking increasingly unlikely. Keeping the iClone/CC bones would mean that animations from iClone don't need to be re-targetted (at least not animations using the same character model) and the clothing and hair does not need to be re-skinned.

In any case I'll take into account that some people may want to delete the armature and keep using the add-on.

RAG DOLL COLLISION ANIMATIONS FOR ICLONE 8 & 7
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Ghost Origins

My latest Feature length film created with Iclone.

My IMDB listing
Anabran Abdhul Quarnain - IMDb

This is exactly what I was hoping for! I don't really understand the CC3 bone setup, but for 90% of what I expect to be doing, I think it would work well if it just had a decent control rig.  One question, though: do you think your system would be able to incorporate additional bones- if for instance I were to add tentacles to a character, or use Daz geomorphs (although it's not clear to me if those work in the daz-CC3 importer anyway)?  I mostly use ordinary human characters, but from time to time I have one with additional characteristics.

My main interest in keeping the CC3 bones is ease of importation, since I don't use iClone. I will say, that from what I've been able to do so far, your addon is a thing of beauty already. Smooth FBX imports with correct materials! That alone is a huge time/work saver.

On a related note-

I'm working with quite a few characters, and many of them have a lot of costume changes. What's the best workflow for this? Create the base character in CC3, the copy it to apply clothes, etc, and export each of these to Blender to be rigged? Or export the base character to Blender, and rig it there, and then fit clothes in CC3 and export them to blender individually? The autofit and adjustment tools in CC3 seem to work okay, but I don't know if there's any equivalent in Blender.

I don't want to get ahead of myself and promise things I can't deliver on, so I'll wait and see how far I get with generating a control rig for the CC bones. (Edit: I do want to be able to do this though, for my part I want to add tails and wings... but we'll see.)


For multiple outfits, I would keep each outfit on it's own copy of the character. You can always move the outfits across to single armature (un-parent them from one armature and parent them to another) later in Blender.

so yeah its actually working - Eyes movment, Tongue movement, lips movment , teeth. Movment without TRAGIC distortion like at my very first tryes  

RIG is complelty working.

I USED this tutorial to properly RIG EYES/TONGUE/TEETH/LIPS and different part of FACE BONES - this tutorial helps much with better undestanding wich face bones where should be placed.



Ill prepare a easy motion with that rig.

LInk to tutorial i used to correct setup EYES / TONGUE / TEETH

That's got real potential, you could make custom facial expressions with that rig.

It might be worth trying to put some support for Rigify in the add-on just for that.

thats the point. I think the posibilites are Limitless when can controll mesh by bones - especially face bones. Expressions can be absolutelty crazy. And then we have "Drivers" - A Shape keys driven by Facial Bones - This absoluelty madness When You move a Bone (Facial) it runs a Shape key.  (and this is also not difficult)

thats why i was so angry for ICLONE - that we cannot setup a totly Custom expression with using bones instead a face-presets. (that posibility was in i guess iclone 5.X version - i
dunno why they removed this feature that was completly bad move). Ofc we can use a SHAPE KEYS for facial expressions but for extreme pose we need or even FIX pose like
smile anger etc. Maybe ill do a simple comparison video of that 2 exactly same characters with SMILE - expression. in Blender and i Iclone. That character i used in earlier vides.

Ps. If abt me xD just focus on Perfect material transfer to Blender (maybe already its perfect hahah) - i dont need anything more But yeah i know other ppls need chillax  

Gn guys.