I wanted to take a look at this thread again to see if there's been any headway from any of the max experts with animal avatars. I know Duchess had some early success with avatars on the elephants and Popeye had some good work on animal props. I think it's a great area worth exploring a little deeper so I wanted to bring a contributory thread back into focus on the forum for poignant discussion.

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It look freaking awesome. Ive been trying to build an alligator for days now and i just cant seem to get it right. lol.

Mike,

This is a technique I am working on as well.  Can you shed more light on pairing skeletons?

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Hi Duchess!
You are but the Queen of MAX!
Your pachyderms look fantastic. I have some ideas on animal design and later I will contact you to discuss the matter. I'm going to give you a hint: You can pair skeletons inside iAvatar and, although they will become a "new" generation they load OK. With an extra set of "arm" bones you can disable the skin to regular arm bones and enable the extra set. In the animation menu you will find means to transfer the left leg motion to the right new "arm-leg"
and viceversa with the other set.... Hummmmm:cool:

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duchess i must say that elephant texture is sooo awesome - looks very realistic

Great creativity and innovation

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Great original meshs Popeye. Nice modeling and rigging.

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The Wolves will be going up to Clones2go today. You will find them in New Content section as well as the Props Area.Thank you for your comments. :D

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Great wolves popeye, tried to find them on clones2go, but couldn't. Got a link??

Loved the elephants Duchess, look forward to seeing a virtual zoo! :)

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Wow Congratulation Duchess if you have managed this. It could be a a major breakthrough and we could soon be talking to the Animals like Dr Dolittle LOL.

I have only managed to make original meshes and put in the the traditional boning rigging. After that I was able to make my own motions up and export from max so these become iProps. I have managed a number of dinosuars doing this as well as the ones below. However I am working on more as I have had requests to do a number of animals.

Thought you may be interested to see these :D

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Watch short clip here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9ax4yPI7Rbo

 

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