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From: Ace Miles <ace@got.net>
Subject: Re: Parenting Bones to Objects and IK
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At 12:42 PM 1/7/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I have been experimenting with IK in LW 4.0C/Intel. My objective was to make a
>creature (OK - an abstract dinosaur kind of guy...) using IK for the arms,
legs,
>and head, and then let the body bend based on the motion of the head. That is,
>as I would pull the goal object for the head, the head would rotate to follow,
>and then the body would bend to follow the head.
>
>So, I set up a head goal object (a null), a head null (for the end of the IK
>chain) and the head object. The head object is parented to the body, which is
>set to be unaffected by IK of descendants (or else there would be all sorts of
>crazy rotations of the body - although I did try to uncheck that box, and
limit
>the IK of the body to just full heading rotations to "follow" the head, but
that
>leads to other problems...).
Don't think you'll have much luck doing it this way. Try it the way the guys
at Will Vinton Studios did the M&Ms. They wrote a pretty nice article in the
VTU of all places (shouldn't it have been in LW Pro? It was extremely
advanced compared to a lot of articles in LWPro recently).
