Maya - Take Direction (rotation)

Yerus

Hi there!

Is there a way (node) that I can use in order to act like a trigger depending on the rotation of an object in relation to the World? (I'm sorry if the question is too dumb).

e.g.: If object is facing -Y, then...

throttlekitty

What do you want to accomplish? Typically we'd use Driven Keys, or maybe a condition or colorCondition.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yUi9FArNBw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qwg3EuWZ80

Yerus

I want the cheeks of a character to "fall" in the direction of the ground just like in reality, I've just thought of an aim contraint, but it's too harsh, if it changes direction too quickly and it's unruly.

throttlekitty

Yerus said:

I want the cheeks of a character to "fall" in the direction of the ground just like in reality, I've just thought of an aim contraint, but it's too harsh, if it changes direction too quickly and it's unruly.

Cheeks you say? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

You'd probably want to use some dynamics for that, layered on top of animations. I don't think there's any setups where this would be a rig function that doesn't involve a custom node.

Yerus

Damn... alright.
Thx 4 that!
In the real cheeks I'm already using  a dynamic...( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)