Advanced Character Rigging - Part Three - Revision history

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2008-02-02T20:13:10Z

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	After all that work of ~~paint~~ those skin weights (wait, you didn't rig the left arm mesh to the right upper leg joint did you?) it's time to refine our rig. So far my left upper leg mesh is rigged to LeftUpLeg, while the lower leg mesh is rigged to . . . well . . . LeftLeg:		After all that work of painting those skin weights (wait, you didn't rig the left arm mesh to the right upper leg joint did you?) it's time to refine our rig. So far my left upper leg mesh is rigged to LeftUpLeg, while the lower leg mesh is rigged to . . . well . . . LeftLeg:

	http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9205/leftlegweightedlf1.jpg		http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9205/leftlegweightedlf1.jpg

2007-06-21T10:17:25Z

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	== Related Articles ==		== Related Articles ==
			* [[Scaling And Rotating AI Meshes]]
			* [[Getting Characters and their Anims into Doom]]
	[[Scaling And Rotating AI Meshes]]		* [[Setting up Ragdolls for Custom Joint Hierarchies]]
			* [[Swapping Heads on AI Models]]
	[[Getting Characters and their Anims into Doom]]		* [[Adding Heads and Weapons to AI]]

	[[Setting up Ragdolls for Custom Joint Hierarchies]]

	[[Swapping Heads on AI Models]]

	[[Adding Heads and Weapons to AI]]

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	Back to [[Advanced character rigging]] Introduction		Back to [[Advanced character rigging]] Introduction
			Back to [[Advanced Character Rigging - Part Two]]

	~~Back to [[Advanced Character Rigging - Part Two]]~~
	[[Category:Models]]		[[Category:Models]]
	[[Category:Animation]]		[[Category:Animation]]

2007-06-21T10:16:41Z

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	Back to [[Advanced Character Rigging - Part Two]]		Back to [[Advanced Character Rigging - Part Two]]
			[[Category:Models]]
			[[Category:Animation]]

2007-03-28T20:01:09Z

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	Here's a shot of an unusual pose thus easily spotting rigging issues (notice the stray vertex on the right leg & the torso near the hips ~~have~~ major issues):		Here's a shot of an unusual pose thus easily spotting rigging issues (notice the stray vertex on the right leg & the torso, near the hips, has major issues):

	http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/4954/unusualposekr3.jpg		http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/4954/unusualposekr3.jpg

2007-03-28T19:59:54Z

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	The lower leg is not behaving naturally. So how do we fix it? I'll tell you but you'd better be nice to me & send money to my PayPal account . . . oh wait, I need to update that account . . .		The lower leg is not behaving naturally. So how do we fix it? I'll tell you but you'd better be nice to me & send money to my PayPal account . . . oh wait, I need to update that account . . .


			Here's a shot of an unusual pose thus easily spotting rigging issues (notice the stray vertex on the right leg & the torso near the hips have major issues):

			http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/4954/unusualposekr3.jpg

2007-03-28T16:56:02Z

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	[[Getting Characters and their Anims into Doom]]		[[Getting Characters and their Anims into Doom]]

			[[Setting up Ragdolls for Custom Joint Hierarchies]]

			[[Swapping Heads on AI Models]]

			[[Adding Heads and Weapons to AI]]

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2007-03-28T16:49:57Z

Part Three

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	== Advanced Character Rigging with Maya 7.0 ==		== Advanced Character Rigging with Maya 7.0 ==

	== Part Three ==		'''Part Three'''

	Back to [[Advanced character rigging]] Introduction		Back to [[Advanced character rigging]] Introduction
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	I normally use weight values of 0.1000 when I'm adding weights so I don't overdo it the first time.		I normally use weight values of 0.1000 when I'm adding weights so I don't overdo it the first time.


	== Other tips ==		== Other tips ==

2007-03-28T16:49:10Z

Other tips:

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	== Other tips: ==		== Other tips ==

	*When working with leg meshes, I flood them with the "Hips" with a weight value of one		*When working with leg meshes, I flood them with the "Hips" with a weight value of one
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	The mercenary elite uses the citywatch's animations but the rigging between the two do not match. The -keep joint option is used for these occasions. Open the md5mesh with a text editor & the af_pose.md5anim (or whichever animation you choose), exportmodels command in D3Ed, & add/subtract any joint in the def file to match joint numbers and names.		The mercenary elite uses the citywatch's animations but the rigging between the two do not match. The -keep joint option is used for these occasions. Open the md5mesh with a text editor & the af_pose.md5anim (or whichever animation you choose), exportmodels command in D3Ed, & add/subtract any joint in the def file to match joint numbers and names.



	== Related Articles ==		== Related Articles ==

2007-03-28T16:48:32Z

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	[[Getting Characters and their Anims into Doom]]		[[Getting Characters and their Anims into Doom]]

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2007-03-28T16:48:13Z

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	The mercenary elite uses the citywatch's animations but the rigging between the two do not match. The -keep joint option is used for these occasions. Open the md5mesh with a text editor & the af_pose.md5anim (or whichever animation you choose), exportmodels command in D3Ed, & add/subtract any joint in the def file to match joint numbers and names.		The mercenary elite uses the citywatch's animations but the rigging between the two do not match. The -keep joint option is used for these occasions. Open the md5mesh with a text editor & the af_pose.md5anim (or whichever animation you choose), exportmodels command in D3Ed, & add/subtract any joint in the def file to match joint numbers and names.



			== Related Articles ==


			[[Scaling And Rotating AI Meshes]]

			[[Getting Characters and their Anims into Doom]]