3ds Max Animation :: Temporarily Assigning A Common Parent Dummy To Several Parts?
Jan 3, 2014
I have several parts that at a point in time come together and need to rotate together around a common point. However, when I animate them it will only let me rotate them around each individual part's axis. How can I temporarily link these parts to a parent dummy object so that I can rotate them together? I want this to happen midstream in the animation and after the rotation I will be decoupling the parts and having them do different things..
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Jan 21, 2013
I run into this from time to time: I have animated some components using dummy objects but then realize that at some point I need to animate them all moving together, so I link the dummy objects to a new parent dummy that I just created. However, most of the time the child dummy objects go haywire, orienting themselves in new directions as soon as I link them to the parent dummy.
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Jan 10, 2012
I would like to animate the chair with 1 dummy and just have the casters follow and rotate when the body of the chair rotates , instead of keying the casters individually. Is this possible with constraints?
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Dec 9, 2013
Is there a way of creating a load of cones on a plane, and then have them all bend, as if they are attracted to a dummy above them. So you could move the dummy around and the cones would all bend dynamically. Doesn't have to cones though, maybe blades of grass.
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Apr 13, 2012
I am currently trying to rig this character in 2012 3ds max. I've done this plenty of times. I cannot seem to grab the IK chain for the heel. I am trying to align the point dummy to the heel.
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Feb 28, 2014
i'm trying to move the green dummy in the direction of the white arrow I use wire parameter from the Boom Helper, so when i rotate the boom helper i want the weights to move on the local x axes of the dummy but it only moves in the worlds x axes (black arrow)
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Jun 1, 2011
The unit basically consists of 3 short cones which at tilted at 30 degrees to the horizon and each on spins on it's own. In order to get them rotating properly I had to assign a TCB quaternion controller. With these three 'cones' rotating on their own I need to have the entire setup rotate with these guys still rotating individually.
google images "oil drill bit" to get an idea of what I'm putting together.
So I link these animated cones to the parent main shaft. Once I do this I lose all the rotation animations I had given to these cones.
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Apr 30, 2013
I know how to do a walk cycle, but how do I make my character turn right or left when he is standing still? I can animate him turning but then my character control is facing in the wrong direction. If I animate him turning and then rotate him opposite the control as I rotate the control in the correct direction it looks wobbly.
What is a common technique for having a character make a turn?
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Jun 16, 2013
I need som code to assigning a material to a part in VBA.
Dim oApp As Inventor.Application
Set oApp = ThisApplication
Dim oDoc As PartDocument
Set oDoc = oApp.ActiveDocument
Dim oPropsets As PropertySets
Set oPropsets = oDoc.PropertySets
Dim Mat As String
[code]....
but the material is not changed .....
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Apr 15, 2012
My problem:There is the parent node (Base) and the child nodes (arm1, arm2, ...). When one of the children (arm1) is picked up all the lower parts in the hierarchy (arm2,arm3) moves, rotates... with their parent (arm1). But if Base is selected and rotated, the child nodes will stay where they are.
I tried to set and unset the "inherit transform" box, but this seem to take no effect.Everything behaved well until i added the point constraint, although i did it as told in the tutorial.
Maya Help >> Learning Resources > Tutorials > Getting Started with Maya > Animation > Lesson 5: Inverse kinematics
What am I doing wrong or where can i change the Settings that set the hindrance?
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Apr 5, 2012
I have a chain of spheres linked a linear manner, i.e. sphere10 is linked to sphere09, sphere09 is linked to sphere08,sphere08 is linked to sphere07, ..., such that sphere01 is overall parent.
I am trying to lock the distance between the children and their parent so that when moving them around, they are always the same distance from their parent. Almost like the child is pivoting around the parent's pivot point. However, I can't seem to figure it out.
I can get it to work if I turn Interactive IK on, but I do not want the movement to affect the orientation of the parent.
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Aug 14, 2011
I have an assembly consisting of 4 sub-assemblies. Item 4 is a mount plate c/w M16 fasteners.I would like the fasteners to display as sub-parts under item 4 (24520020s) as 4.1, 4.2, etc because they are also purchasable separately.
I do not want to display the mount plate (03241389s) because it's not purchasable separately.
When I expand item 4 in the parts list it automatically turns visibility off for item 4 (24520020s), and only shows the children (0231....s).I would like to display item 4 & the fasteners only. Quite simple to turn off visibility of 03241389s, but cannot get the parent and child parts to display at the same time.
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Dec 30, 2012
I've set keyframes on the Glow Intensity attribute of an object so I can slowly reduce the intensity at certain points. Now I need to create a new expression to give a random flickering to the glowing object as the scene plays, until the glow finally dims out.
But when I select Glow Intensity and try to create the Expression, there is no option now to 'Create New Expression'. The other options are still there, but it seems that at the top I'm left with an option relating to the Animation Curve Attributes (animCurveTU..?)
Is there no way to add a rand() expression to give some flickering to the Glow Intensity if I also have a few keyframes set that slowly dim the overall intensity level? Surely not.
I've tried to manually create the expression in the Expression Editor, but when I have to type in the name of the attribute, it hangs the whole program and I have to kill Maya and restart. Either it will not work that way or I'm missing something.
Maybe another way get the flickering short of manually keyframing the intensity level for the entire sequence.
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Feb 26, 2014
I am trying to get the hand to write with a pencil. I pose the hand and fingers holding the pencil and constrain (parent constraint with offset) the pencil to the hand's wrist controller and freeze the pencil's translation attributes. When moving the wrist controller creating key frames or translating in the UI, the pencil does not follow the hand/fingers. There seems to be an offset with the pencil that get worse the farther I translate or rotate the wrist controller. I tried doing the same with just the fingers and getting the same result.
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Dec 12, 2013
I've created my blend shapes and in the process of creating states for for the master button control. When i assign a state the slave mesh moves from it's position far off into the scene but the the state is applied to it. My question is how do i get the slave mesh to stop moving when i create a state and assigning it?
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Apr 3, 2011
How come baking some part of animation in graph editor deletes everything before and after the part i bake and how can i bake that part while leaving the rest untouched?
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Jun 19, 2013
In maya 2012 n 13...the end joint not matching to parent joint...
after creating leg joints are spine joints...we set the orientation of joints..but last joint wil put NONE in option box right....after applying this the end joint orientation still in world axis instead of parent joint..
is this bug are is there any other option(other then jointOrientaion in the joint attributes)..
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Sep 29, 2011
I’m having a problem with a part being skewed after it’s been linked to another part. This only happens when the part that it was linked to rotates.
3ds Max 2013/2014
Autodesk Inventor & AutoCAD
HP xw8600 Workstation
Windows 7 64Bit
Dual Intel Xeon 2.83 E5440 GHz
8.00 GB of Ram
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Dec 17, 2013
I am trying to find out if it is possible to hide parts of a mesh while I skin certain parts of a mesh using biped . Here is what I have tried. Below my skin modifier on my stack is my edit mesh. I open up edit mesh and select the faces I would like to hide and hide them .Then I return to my skin modifier and skin parts of my mesh. but then I reliased that my biped is no longer skinned to my mesh if I hide a porition of the mesh. Even When I unhide the faces the mesh is no longer skinned to the biped. The biped moves but my mesh no longer follows. I tried deleting the skinned biped bones on the skin modifier and re adding them but it still did not do anything.
I know there must be a way to hide parts while you skin. By the way I am using MAX10
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Dec 15, 2011
what happens when I open up an existing AutoCad drawing (with no other AutoCAD applications running); I get a "dummy" screen (to the left) and the target drawing (to the right.)
It seems to me the dummy screen is unnecessary and would like to get rid this pet-peeve from my AutoCAd experience.
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Oct 13, 2012
I have some architectural scenes that i'm bringing into max from Softimage. I'm using FBX. When I export, the instances come across as dummy objects, so it appears that instances are not support with FBX.
When i'm in Max, is there any way for me to tell Max that these dummies should be instances of another object?
Work Computer - Max 2012, Core i7 3.6, 6GB RAM, ATI FireGL V7700 512MB, Windows 7 64bit
Home Computer -BBC Electron with tape player and a copy of creepy cave
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Jun 14, 2012
example: elevation label is 123 and the style setting in simplex, it used to show all in simplex now one of the number is in arial?
i already tried to create a dummy text style with all the correct setting and type a test word and voila - it shows one of the letter in a different font!
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Jan 17, 2012
I don't need the capability to print directly to a plotter, but I need to set up a dummy plotter to generate plt files that will be changed to tif files with our Kip. Any plotter driver that works for this situation? Every one I have tried has generated a plt file, but the Kip would not convert it or open it.
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Apr 17, 2012
I am doing some car park designs with Corridors at the moment.
The method I am using is to create a dummy surface and apply surface profiles to all Baselines and Targets (mostly Offset Alignments). This way if I have to change my levels, I simply amend my dummy surface and everything updates straight away.
This works great, but I recently got a (typically random) Fatal Error. I recovered the Recover drawing which was saved and for some reason all profiles changed to Static and I can't change them back to Dynamic.
I know that if an alignment cant find the surface it will change to Static and I assume that during the fatal error or recover process, something must have triggered for this to happen?
Is there any way (other than resampling all profiles and updating each corridor target individually) of making the profiles dynamic again?
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Intel Xeon E31230 - 3.20 GHz
4.00 GB RAM
Windows 7 Professional - 64-bit
Nvidia Quadro 600 - 1GB DDR3
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Apr 3, 2013
I have a massive block of dummy text set up in Illustrator 5 and the easiest way for me to change the dummy text is to overwrite it as one would when using the Insert function.
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Nov 5, 2012
Basically PS is freezing up temporarily, after 2-3 minutes then it becomes usaable again until it decides to feeze again. I do most of my editing in Lightroom, and only use PS because I like to just do soem finally touch ups if needed (bit of dodge/burn) and i like to use photokit sharpener (I like to brush in sharpening with actions i have created).So, i can't say for sure what initiates the freezing. Sometiems its while trying to brush in sharpening, other times it won't allow me to save.
I'm on Mac using Snow Leopard. 4Gb RAM. I use a logitech mouse. I had previous been using CS4 with zero problems.I've tried unchecking "save in backgrorund" as well as "use graphics processor"
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Dec 27, 2012
I am using Photoshop CS6 right now.
I want to display all colors except black and white as red temporarily like this.
I want to check the area I forget to paint, so I want to display those 3 colors(red, black and white.).
My layer nest is like this.
Layer 0(this contains Black line)
Group 1
[
Layer 1(red)
Layer 2(cyan)
Layer 3(green)
Layer 4(yellow)
]
White Solid color layer
And I want to make the color of layer 1,2,3 and 4 red temporarily. Adjustment layer doesn't work.
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Feb 16, 2013
Using X5 Ultimate Using the Edit function tab, and with several clips in the timeline, selecting one, then choosing clip mode and playing the clip in the view panel happily provides the clip embedded sound too. But occasionally, it doesn't. Generally after doing something related, eg today, I was recording a voiceover file to go with a clip, and when finished I just played the clip in clip mode - and just got images, but not the sound which is embedded in the clip (don't expect to hear the voiceover in that configuration). When it happens, I can get the sound embedded in the clip back by:
- choosing project mode, then playing the clip section; or
- changing the function tab to share, then back to edit, and then playing the clip; or
- saving the project file, closing X5 and then reopening both X5 and the same project file, and playing the clip.
Like, the control(s) that manage clip sound in the clip mode, play, seem to get "lost" during some edit functions and require a serious elbow jog to get back together.
Is there a control setting that prevents it happening in the first place?
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can you temporarily merge layers? is that possible? also can make the back ground layer the fist and put other layers beneath?
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Jul 29, 2013
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Oct 19, 2011
I have a question about whether or not it's possible to temporarily "freeze" part of a Photoshop canvas so that you can work on the rest of the canvas without the frozen part being affected.
I know there are plenty of tricks that you can do with layers and layer masks, but if possible, I would prefer to have a completely separate function that works outside of all layer options.
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