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Great rig! The only thing i found i couldn't work my way around was the reflection on his head.
I have him standing in-front of a mirror in one of my shots and its his whole body is there but his head. Just a floating tong. If anyone can tell me how to fix it thank you!
Hello there! I've been working with max rig in a couple of animations, and it's very nice. I was making my animation in Maya 8.5 and the render looked pretty good. The mental ray light environment was working perfect, but I've just upgraded to Maya 2010 and it just screwed the final render. The IBL isn't working. It give me a black shaded image.
Hope you can tell me how to fix it.
Thank you in advance.
Goes without saying it's a great rig. Worked wonders for me in max, and was the obvious choice for teaching myself animation in Maya.
One thing though; i found the option to change the hand IK parent in the channel box, but i want to parent the hand to a prop rather than the world or another bodypart. How would i go about doing that?
Nice rig, but for some reason when using the Trax Editor (or even just copying the key frames), his right elbow doesn't keep the rotations from the first set into the copied set. I've set all the offsets to relative, and have redone my animation 7 times.
@ Sophie White
Hi there Sophie, sorry to respond so late to your question. In any event, if you haven't worked it out on your own already, the IK/FK switch sub-controls are on the "ROOT" controller, not the shoulder controller. When you select the "ROOT" controller, you should see in that list a setting called "IK/FK arms" and "IK/FK legs". By default, I believe the rig is set up with FK on the arms (a value of "0"), and IK on the legs (a value of "1").
If you want to blend between these two types for the arms, all you have to do is set a key on the "IK/FK Arms", switch to the type of kinematics you'll be using with the controller (ie: FK to IK would be "0 to 1"), and then set another key on this controller; that's it! One word of caution though, I would recommend making your IK/FK transition span as few frames as possible to keep things looking natural/smooth (I usually don't go beyond 1 or 2 frames on average). Hope this helps...
