CAT 3dsmax

Ruz

so just started using this system and had a few basic questions. There are custom boxes for bones and I need to resize them,/reposition them. to fit a new mesh  Can I just use standard scale/rotate/etc ?
the rig already has ik setup. do i just disable each ik handle by setting it to 1.0, tweak the bones, then turn it back on

any help and any other tips would be cool

cheers
mike

Ruz

no worries fixed it anyway( polycount tumbleweeds float by)

monster

Sorry, I don't use CAT much, but this is a good basic rundown of how to setup characters with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfT3TZAts9g&list=PL1FBDE6A6E89809AF

Ruz

tnaks for the vi monster. I have another problem now in that the copy /mirror past for the bones does not work properly.

Mark Dygert

Yeah, they broke cat pretty hard when they integrated it years ago. They made a few steps to fix it but it's still pretty janky.

Ruz

well in this case it was my fault. I forgot its just copy and paste mirror, ie you have to select the first bone, hit copy, then select the target bone then hit paste(mirror)
With biped its just 1 click , paste posture opposite or similar
bizarrely I did it right previously:/

spacefrog

Mark Dygert said:

Yeah, they broke cat pretty hard when they integrated it years ago. They made a few steps to fix it but it's still pretty janky.

For what it's worth, they also included the full CAT source code with 3ds Max 2018 SDK. So now anyone could go out for bug hunting and fixing

Noors

2000€ a year and you have to debug yourself. How kind.

spacefrog

Noors said:

2000€ a year and you have to debug yourself. How kind.

Well, at least better than having no possibility at all. AFAIK this doesn't mean that they aren't considering future official fixes BTW
But essentially you are right: for the insane 2K/yr subscription rate, one should expect more of that money be thrown into QA and further development of the product they want to get rented