How do I rig shoulder armor?

Lv_42M · May 2021

Hello I've been dealing with this problem for a couple months now and I feel like I've tried everything. I've used drivers, bone parenting, extra bones. But I haven't come up with anything concrete. I want to be able to rig shoulder armor so that when the arm raises it doesn't clip with the arm or the neck.

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Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/9w/n1ugjq9tqvq7.jpg

so far my go to fix is to create control bone for the spaulder that has a location driver that makes the armor move slightly out of the way as the arm raises. While this works I want to know if anyone has any blender rig tips/tricks that would work better.

PolyHertz · May 2021

There's a good example of how to do a shoulder rig with armor here:
https://polycount.com/discussion/200175/rigging-a-spaulder-an-easy-way-a-simple-way-to-rig-shoulder-armor

Lv_42M · May 2021

PolyHertz said:

There's a good example of how to do a shoulder rig with armor here:
https://polycount.com/discussion/200175/rigging-a-spaulder-an-easy-way-a-simple-way-to-rig-shoulder-armor

this looks like it would would, but what bone constraint would be the equivalent of the softimage Look at in Blender?

How do I rig shoulder armor?

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