Maya Rigging Constraint Issue - Low Poly Dinosaur
Hey all, I have been trying to rig this dinosaur model I made for a little bit now and I am having an issue with the parenting and the constraints. When I try to parent the tail and the arms to the chest / body it breaks the constraints and warps the arms and tail. I included some screens below and was just hoping if someone knows of any issues / mistakes that can be made while doing this.
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Is there any chance that this is because the position on the actual IK's aren't frozen? The last rig I did it worked when I just froze the controllers.
I see this happening in your tail controller as well.
As you can see the freeze has transforms, which are related to the global_srt null. The local transforms are zeroed out by the freeze null. These things are rigging basics.
The deformers, or call it "bones" are only constrained with pose constraints and got their own hierarchie.
If you just freeze the position of a null object it returns itself to the global zero position. Even if it "works" in some cases this would be a hacky workaround. And will cause your rig to become unstable.