3ds Max Animation :: Best Way To Scale Bones?
Dec 19, 2012
if I have a rig and an object which is skinned to it, what is the best way to enlarge a bone so that certain vertices on my mesh will look inflated or deflated?
I tried to some tricks with the Xform modifier: wiring it's Gizmo controller to a slider UI control so that I could increase and decrease its size without actually scaling it, but this doesn't have any affect on the mesh. I then tried creating morph targets for the bones so that I could again increase and decrease their size without scaling them, but it didn't affect the mesh either.
It seems that the only way to get the mesh to localy increase or decrease in size is to scale parts of your rig, but that's something I always try to avoid.
3ds Max 2013 64-bit Student Version
nVidia GeForce GTX 560
Windows 7 64-bit
Intel i7
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Dec 5, 2011
Is there a way to scale the bones on the biped or do you do that manually? and if you could do it manually will that mess up anything in the rig? Am trying to scale the bones to fit my mesh so the joints move correctly
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Aug 24, 2012
I'm gonna create a folding animation (two planes folding over each other or a single plane fold over itself). Problem is I have to do it with bones and if I use two planes, when they are folded they will have a little gap in pivot line and if I use a single plane then I don't know how to assign a polygon (sub-object) to bone.
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
3Ds Studio Max 2012 x64 - Student Version
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Jul 31, 2013
I'm just starting out with animating for a project. I'm trying to animate a weapon, but the bones are not showing, I've tried pretty much everything. The bone helpers are showing, but not the bones themselves:
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Jan 14, 2014
I have a purchased model with a "hose type" rigg, and I can't figure out how to replicate it.
There is a hose with a bone structure that has four point helpers one on the face mask, one at the top, one at the bottom and one in the middle. If I move the one in the middle it moves all the bones without stretching them...
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Mar 22, 2011
In 3ds Max i made CAT Bones for my model. However how do i attach these bones to my model? Because when in Motion Builder my model doesn't move with the bones. I also tried a biped it also didnt move.
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May 4, 2011
I am working with a rig that has arms and legs in which the upper and lower sections (Thigh, Shin, Upper Arm, Forearm) are composed of chains of bones in and of themselves. I have included a screen shot to show a simplified example of what I mean.
When working FK, of course, this is no problem at all, but sometimes I'd like to be able to use IK solvers to make placement tasks easier. Unfortunately, applying an IK solver means the bones forming the upper and lower parts of the limb also bend as the limb bends. In the screenshot, the bones on the left are an example of what sort of limb I am dealing with, the bones in the middle show the effect of using an IK solver (note the bend in the upper and lower leg) and the bones on the right show what I would like to achieve using IK.
So, is there any way to lock the motion of those bones composing the upper and lower parts of the limb so they won't bend as part of an IK chain? I'm using Max 2010 by the way.
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Apr 17, 2012
So I've come across a simple roadblock, I can't seem to be able to link the bones to the mesh. The bones pretty much move as if they were separate from the rest.
As the dozens of videos I've seen, the process is usually the same: after creating the mesh, go to Helpers > CAT Objects > CAT Parent, choose a RIG(Base Human) and add it.
So I do all that and fit the rig to the character. After that, go to Modifier List, choose Skin, click Add and select Base Human bones. In the videos, that's when everyone always goes to the motion tab, add the CATMotion Layer, and the mesh and bones move together.
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Apr 19, 2013
I don't know what I have done, but the bones aren't shown. However, the joint point (the circle ones) are shown.
I'll attach a picture.
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Jan 13, 2014
When animating, I have to manually key all the bones on frame 1, and then manually key all the bones on frame "whatever". If I don't key every bone myself, then bones I missed on frame one will become the same as the ones on frame "whatever". I was wondering if there a way to select and key all the bones at the same time? I tried, just slecting all the bones in one 'left-click', and that only seems to key the root bones.
I am actually a 3D modeler from a different program trying to learn Maya. I have spent the past 5 days just watching youtube tutorials, but for some reason they do not seem to have the problem I am having.
Here are what my setting look like: [URL]...
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May 5, 2012
Got this low-poly model here. I created some bones for it and inserted them into the mesh. But when I use the Skin Modifier into it, and use the 'add' button under "Parameters". No bones appear in the list?
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Aug 25, 2010
I created a frog character that is all one mesh, and created several facial mouth movement Blendshapes. When I test the Blandshapes they work great. Problem is, when I move one of the bones of the skeleton like his leg for example - and try one of the blendshapes, it blend the mouth perfectly, but also blends the rest of the mesh of the character back to his original position (non-bent leg). I was under the impression Blendshapes were only related to the mesh and not when moving bones?
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Nov 16, 2011
I created a rig in MAX 32bit but recently loaded 64 bit MAX but now when I choose the skin modifier/edit envelopes, I cannot choose bones to edit. The interface just flashes and I am not able to select verts on the mesh. I had originally used the weight tool to change the weights of each vert on the mesh, now it doesn't work at all.
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Mar 29, 2011
How can I apply my biped to the bones of a diffrent model? I have tried the Position and Orientation constraint bit with the second one my model messes up. Are there any different ways to apply it?
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Mar 25, 2013
I'm using MassFx in 2013 64bit. When I apply any rigid body modifier to an object it looks fine but after I save and reload the .max file the scale & position of the rigid body is wrong. This seems random, I've tried switching to CM and Meters etc, nothing seems to fix it.
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Apr 1, 2008
wants me to create a Scale Animation in PhotoShop MX 2004 (I have PhotoShop CS3 and Windows XP OS) the annoying thing is that I cant not find Numeric In Transform (by going to edit) all I have is: Scale, Rotate, Skew, Distort, Perspective and Warp, is there anyway I could get an add-on or a Plug-In?
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Apr 17, 2012
I'm trying to scale a spring (which is actually a renderable spline). I want it's scalable boundaries to be controlled by two other animated objects.
I thought a simple FFD modifier with a linked xform modifier to the control points would work, but unfortunately it won't let me link control points.
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Mar 8, 2011
I have the situation in the attachment photo.
I want simply scale the root of the hand skeleton, but if i use "scale" it scales also the cildren...
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Jul 23, 2012
I'm new to Video Studio and new to the forum after downloading the trial of X5. Want to know how to move and scale a graphic such as a jpeg across the screen along an animation path - iE; I have a picture of an object that starts at one point in the top left hand corner which I can animate to grow bigger and move to the bottom of the screen.
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Feb 3, 2012
I have several art assets that I have already rigged, skinned, and animated. Unfortunately, the objects have to be re-sized.
There isn't a simple way to simply scale the rigg to match the new size, because then the transforms are incorrect, and the scale on the bones are no longer at 100%. Normally it wouldn't matter, but these objects need to go into a game engine, so it has to be at 100%
No, simply re-sizing the rigg and hoping to just 'reset scale' will not work either.
Save/Load animation will inherit the pivot points of the original animation and paste them onto the re-sized objects, so that does not work either.
Is there a way to transfer a rigg and save it's animation when an object gets re-sized? I'd figure that Autodesk would have made some kind of feature for this scenario, since in game production things will inevitably be scaled at some point.
It's easy to scale everything to it's new size... the problem is... how do I reset it's transforms without the rigg going bonkers?
How do I take the original animations and re-apply them to the newly scaled down version?
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Oct 5, 2011
Say I have a series of keys, and I want to add exactly 1 or 2 spaces in between each key. is there a way to do that? rather than selecting chunks at a time and spacing them apart... like +=2 will move all the selected keys over 2 spaces all together. maybe theres a code that moves them with an offset?
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Feb 1, 2005
I am attempting softening the skin and that the sternum's bones not be noticeable .
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Nov 23, 2011
I created a biped bone model for my limbless animal model I made, and I'm trying to figure out how to link the biped bones to my limbless model, so I can animate it in Motionbuilder.
how I can line the bone structure with my model and link them both together so I can animate them in Motionbuilder?
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May 31, 2012
I have the student editions of both 3ds max 2012 and 2013 installed. When drawing bones in 2013, they don't show as the normal, pyramidal-looking bones, but as very hard to see lines. Is there any way to change this back to how they used to look in 2012?
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Jan 9, 2012
I was wondering if there's a faster way than to manually check to see which bones are skinned and which ones aren't - the rig im working on is quite a monster (~200 bones) and there seems to be a bone skinned which shouldn't be.
Like a way to "filter" them in the scene explorer or something?
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Apr 4, 2011
I have recently starting skinning my human model and everything was fine until I found out that the chest bone I have on each side of the chest isn't being noticed by 3ds Max as being symmetrical with the other bone. This means I can't use mirror bones or mirror vertices to that part of the model. How to make two bones that aren't being recognized as symmetrical by 3ds Max symmetrical? When using the envelopes in the skin modifier, when I go to mirror the bones or vertices, the two bones are red instead of blue or green to show symmetry. The two bones are relatively in the same place on opposite sides of the model. They aren't the same size but close. Is there something I need to do to make them have symmetry or is there a way to make 3ds Max recognize that you have two bones that you want to be symmetrical?
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Sep 30, 2011
I want to record the facial animation I did in softimage,but the face bones/objects are bugging me out.So how can I hide them for a sec?
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Oct 12, 2011
I'm creating a face rig but i need a flexible modifier for the bones to make work instead use facerobot
how i can make it?
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Jul 27, 2011
I build the bones for my character, but when I move the bones the body deformates, how to eliminate this annoying thing?
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Aug 23, 2011
Lately I've been trying to pose a character that uses a biped rig, and things have not been going very well. For some reason, every time I try to position a bone, such as the pelvis or part of the spine, only that bone rotates or moves and nothing else in the whole skeleton follows suit with it. So I get all this weird stretching of my model as only the pelvis is rotated and nothing else, or the neck is very far down below the top of the spine. I know that it wasn't always like that; one thing is rotated and everything else goes with it. I don't recall having to link and re-link Biped bones.
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Aug 12, 2011
Is it possible to transfer pose bones(weights) from one Mudbox file to another to use them for another mesh? I can see that one can maybe use .fbx and Maya path but not everyone has Maya or a Maya user.
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