Rigging a beholder
polycounter lvl 14
Hey all,
Looking to rig a beholder creature I've created for a baldur's gate 2 mod project I'm working on. I've worked with mostly humanoid characters up till this point but now I'm looking at rigging the eyestalks for this creature and I'm not sure what the best way to do it would be. I'm using max 2011.
Any suggestions? It's for dragon age, and I think the bone index limit the engine allows is like.. 67 bones. I'm only using a couple bones in the rig so far though.. one for the jaw, one for the eye, and two spine bones. I'm not sure how many bones I should use per eyestalk, and how to set up the rig so that it's easy to animate (as I'm also going to be doing a few basic animations for it.. idle, getting hit, moving forward, knock back, biting, spell casting from each eyestalk and the main eye, and death). Any help at all.. tips, tricks, things to keep in mind.. would be very appreciated! Thanks polycounters.
Looking to rig a beholder creature I've created for a baldur's gate 2 mod project I'm working on. I've worked with mostly humanoid characters up till this point but now I'm looking at rigging the eyestalks for this creature and I'm not sure what the best way to do it would be. I'm using max 2011.
Any suggestions? It's for dragon age, and I think the bone index limit the engine allows is like.. 67 bones. I'm only using a couple bones in the rig so far though.. one for the jaw, one for the eye, and two spine bones. I'm not sure how many bones I should use per eyestalk, and how to set up the rig so that it's easy to animate (as I'm also going to be doing a few basic animations for it.. idle, getting hit, moving forward, knock back, biting, spell casting from each eyestalk and the main eye, and death). Any help at all.. tips, tricks, things to keep in mind.. would be very appreciated! Thanks polycounters.
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1 for the main eye.
a FK bone chain of 3 or 4 bones for each stalk should do it.
why are you using 2 spine bones for a beholder. its body doesnt twist or deform.
I tried doing an IK set up with 6 or so bones for the eyestalks (as I'd like to control them using the end link), but maybe I should just set them up as FK and manually rotate each link to get the animations I'm trying to achieve? I'm really not too familiar with setting this stuff up but there's no one else on the team to do it so I'm trying to learn as I come across each challenge.