if the animation only being done in maya? if so you can use parent constraints, dont need additional joints. Also worth looking into Animbot if you'll be doing a lot of animations - it has some helpers for this sort of thing that is a lot less fuss compared to using native constraints.
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Yeah that's not the behavior I see. Did you check the Help file? The video they have is pretty instructive. https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2025/ENU/?guid=GUID-169906C5-CBC4-45CD-8DFB-F716D51D6168 I'm betting you have some non-default option enabled, or you have some other constraint active on the object. Some…
it's not pretty or elegant but it works :) start with the theory, basically find the intersection of the ray from the center of the eye ball to the target helper on the plane where the pupil resides. so the rig helper "ball" (the virtual center of the eye) it's parent is the main head mesh, has a lookat constraint (lookat…
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@Veer_P An interesting shape, they're typically fiddly to model in polygonal subd that are usually fabricated using an extruded die cast mould' and also CAD designed, hence indeed a challenge so my approach would be as if modeling a car body shell of some sort with a Shrinkwrap Modifier. Because there's a similarity in…
Hi, I'm haven't done much rigging for games... I've got a quick question regarding joints that are not under the root hierarchy of a game rig. I've seen an example of doing wrist and ankle joints in relation to a 3 chain ik/fk switch setup, as free floating, where they are point constrained to the last child of the skin…
Umm. You are posting in the heart of this bubble. :) You’re certainly free to express your opinion. But as said, here you’ll interact with and possibly learn from industry veterans, many of whom have worked on these exact games. https://polycount.com/discussion/224052/cyberpunk-2077-konpeki-plaza…
That really depends on how you are modelling your high poly. If you are using turbo smooth then adding the correct constraining edges should work fine. If not then you should probably chamfer them. If you are turbosmoothing though you might have some issues getting the curve to look right because it is so close to the…
The more you ground your stylization in reality, the less problematic a lot of the design will be. Just to take one element as an example, the shoulder: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61wj3JqLo7L._AC_SL1500_.jpg To make something stylized, you should thoroughly understand how the real thing is constructed, then you…