How to go about bending blades of a fan. This is a test demo of a project I have to do. I want to solve my issue with this simple demo. I have to make a crashing fan scenario. As the fan crashes the fan blades must bend natural in the animation. This animation will be about 20+ sec long. How would you go about solving this problem
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I have a simple character with two a leg. The IK chain goes from the top bone to the bottom nub. When I move the ik helper around, the knee does not bend, even though there is a joint for it. Instead the leg rotates only at the top.
Example:
Should happen: (notice bend in knee)
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The bones are all connected correctly as well.
So I'm trying to rig this arm to bend, but with more "bow" than "bend", if you get what i mean..
I thought I could create an IK handle, but at the moment it bends only at 1 joint. I would like it to bend further up the arm,in an arc shape.
I wonder why it will not bend. Why it didn't bend? I attached the PrintScreen of the problem
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2. connect the points with a curve
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quick example on the image attached, real application on the video, video shows the animation(rendered sequential images of 1 loop then applied as texture) but with linear speed, so constant separation, i need to apply the above here, these dont only move on the X axis but on the Y aswell, while keeping the symmetry fixed on the center.
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My work flow is as follows:
1 - Export car from Mudbox to Maya
2 - Separate the wheels & center pivot all items
3 - Add NurbsCurves to create a rig
4 - Parenting the elements of the car
5 - Add an expression based on this web post [URL].......
6 - Test the animation
It works great when translating the car in the Z axis, but when the car is rotated 95 degrees in the Y axis the wheel will only go backwards no matter which direction the car is moved.
I have attached an MB (Maya 2013) so you can see the
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translate facial motion capturing data (basically 2d point clouds) to blendshape weights. I finished rigging my character and wanted to drive my blendshapes by the relative position of my tracking data, e.g. distance between corners of the mouth drive the "wide" blendshape and so on...
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I should be able to import/export animation layers right?
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I have a image plane. I would like to move the image of the plane in animation. It looks out then masking. I need only some parts of the image in frame one, and I need other parts of the image on frame 100. The plane isn't moving, only the image is moving in the box.
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A: Can I export skinning information from one mesh to another. I have two identical versions of the character except I forgot to weld some verts on the model before skinning. Can I weld the verts and then export > import the skinning data? If so how?
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I have max 2011 an 2012.
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heres also a screenshot.
Using Maya 20121 and Motionbuilder 2012
I've been working on an animation for a week or two and all of the sudden the file no longer plays the animation. The keyframes are there and I can scrub through them, but when I hit play it just hangs on the frame it's already on, it says it's playing (The icon changes to stop and in the corner it says "Hit ESC to stop playing", but nothing moves. I can bring it into older versions of Maya and it plays, but the only other version of Maya I have is 2008 and it doesn't like the transfer from 2011 to 2008.
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