mike ricks 3d blog

This was the pose that didnt get saved So this 3rd pose is the now after the tutorial so this is on my own.

Was working on the animation bit and i had a complete pose on 45 but as soon as i moved the timeline it removed it and i got just stopped for the night.

Nothing too special just the tools and character rig.

So im more or less done. i was gonna do a final video but the dogtag detached and the skeleton detached from the skin and i just cant take it any more lol. but i think i have the general idea but i think ill look up how to rig in max.

So this night was a nightmare. I couldnt get anything in the Hypershade to work like in the videos. the buttons i push dont bring up whats in the video. when i load up the project files i cant even find the hypershade stuff so i cant even find follow up. So im skipping most of the anything that involves hyper shade because i just cant make it work. And now the tail doesnt even follow the blend stuff either I should have just done a max tutorial lol.

Plugging along the dog rig. the expressions wouldnt work on the first video so i just made it on the key thing like in the other tutorial.

Okay moving on and even his advance file didnt have the same joints moving as one so im not that worried about it. i think i get the principle of taking a bunch of weird groups and applying them to custom controls.

So the back legs have been a big pain in the butt. Im pretty frustrated and would like to move on and just pick up his thing or just skip this entirely i even tried to replicated on the other leg and that failed too so either something changed since his lessons or editions or something.

Had to Redo the legs because after i learned you can lower the bones size it became apparent my feet were bad Font legs rigged and Ik handled.

So i got started on the dog. made my own skeleton, the toes were a bit tricky but i got something close. Hes really confusing on the controls bit so i kind of want to do my own thing from the previous video.

The rig ended up breaking a bit but i think i got the gist of it.

Got the mouth to cooperate. it didnt work initially but i literally just took his script which is exactly the same then it work to make the splines all follow the mouth control.

Honestly didnt want to make all those splines so i jumped to the latest file if that is okay just making and applying controls

This was from a the other day put it on the wrong blog So the joint still bent backward so im skipping to next step Blend shapes which i dont quite understand but it works Skinned he joints and its nice to see it working.

Finished with this module and am moving on to the next.

Got to setting up the right but ran into a issue with the controls i can get the ik rig to work the fk is a bit wonky and am unsure how to fix. ill figure it out in class.

Finished off the left arm and got started on the right.

So I got the arm to stretch!!!! after i figured out that the locater that the IK arm distance wasnt actually moving with the handle once i did that it stretched with the Node editor. however it was stretching both ways. So i ended up plugging in that script and it it works and bends and i am happy. also in the video it didnt pick up the window for expression editor but i left in in.

When the arm turns the second circle goes in this weird arc and i cant also figure that out either. So got the arm built up and able to switch from FK to IK . But i cant get the thing to stretch again and i have no earthly clue as to why. I have everything named properly and and the code sticks and the scale turns pink but it doesnt stretch and i am sick and tired of trying to figure out why. even if i skip it and use his files it doesnt help me if i gotta rig a completely different character.

So after proceeding with the next course lesson and i used that particular file since i couldn't get the right leg to stretch. I just wanted to highlight the constrain part as while i didnt utilize it yet. but the set key part is pretty interesting too and handy when it till come to animation. ill have to experiment with both of those when i can.