3ds max rig help

hoborge

hello everyone, I've made account here because I am currently in stage of learning how to rig in 3ds max. I should mention that I am complete rigging noob... only thing I've done is some legs and arms.

Well here's what I want to achieve:



can anyone help me with this? I don't have much problems with the rig itself (I think) but I can't figure out how to properly restrict the axis rotations etc... been trying for like 6 hours straight and nothing

thanks in advance

monster

You want to use an HD IK solver. (History Dependent)

Go to the Hierarchy Panel > IK tab and you can define joint restrictions, joint limits, and sliding. HD solvers are a little finicky, especially when you undo. But it should play fine when you hit the play button.

In the IK chain you'll want to use a dummy instead of the ball joint at the "foot" of the rig.
Here is an example max file.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2904948/Tutorials/hdikSolver.max

hoborge

wow, that helped me very much now I understand what I was doing wrong

thanks a lot