Auto Rig with Maxscript

Diblow

Auto Rig Script ( 3DS Max )

By Thomas Polfliet with the help of Romain Lemaire

Hey guys ! I've been working for a while on this tool to create rigs for bipeds really easily. And it's finally done !

Here it is :

And a few gifs to see the rig in action:

If you have any suggestions and/or questions go ahead !

Thanks

musashidan

Nice work. You should probably change the title though, or people might think it's using the Max Biped system and not check it out.

Have you considered adding a Ctrls GUI? Have you seen Rune's Supersimplerig? It might give you some ideas for expansion. It's by far the best freely available rigging system created for Max, to date.

http://www.superrune.com/tools/supersimplerig.php

Diblow

Thanks for the advices, I didn't know Rune's Supersimplerig but I'll definitely check it out !

monster

Nice work!

Is it compatible with game engines (single skeleton hierarchy with no extra transforms)?

Diblow

Thanks !

Great question, and yes it actually is compatible with game engines. Just export the bones and the mesh :

poopipe

When I wrote an autorigger a few (many) years ago I made the export/skin skeleton topologically independent of the FK/IK/Blend rigs to allow for super optimised game rigs/rig LODs, it proved very useful for mobile stuff so may be worth considering.  

also, a pose mirroring tool a bit like biped gives you would be a fun* little exercise 




* it's neither fun nor little

musashidan

And please add UE4 auto-retargetting while you're at it.......

Incidentally, would it be available to test out to UE?

Diblow

Hey guys, thanks for the feedbacks !
I'm not sure of what you mean poopipe but the bones to export are independent from the rest of the rig !

And I didn't try to export it to UE but I'll definitly try it soon !

poopipe

I just meant that the number of bones and hierarchical order of the export skeleton is completely independent from the control rig.

I imagine you have the same sort of arrangement. 

r189

Is there a script that I can download and try?

ramirami

good day,

i now this is old thread but , its there any link to download?

or this is a puaid one??

thanks