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cloud_spine (Spine: IK/FK)
This rig was used to rig the spines of some of the open movie characters, while some of the more recent ones used the newer Spine: Squashy component type, not featured in this series. Neither of them are a universal super-multi-functional spine rig by any means. This one's actually fairly simple; It can do IK, FK, and IK stretch (but not squash), and will work best for fairly human-proportioned spines.
The Squashy component type you can find in more modern CloudRig supports squashing, but generally behaves quite differently, for example you can't use the hip control to "drag" the entire torso down.
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@Demeter Dzadik hi, can you explain "MSTR_spine_hips" which appears with green color in meta rig pose mode..in Human_Meta_Cloud_Rig....? and is that needed that bone I cannot find it in the snow rig of the 3d male character also in that snow rig I found it under spine type it's spine "cloud_spine_squashy" is selected and what about cloud_spine....? please clear all these stuff having many doughts I'm asking but other than you there is no one on the internet to whom I can resolve the issue as cloud rig is very rare content floating on the internet to learn.
@Anmol Krishna Not sure what there is to explain, just grab it and see what it does! It's just a basic hip control, nothing fancy at all. Snow has the same control, maybe it's named a bit differently.
Hi Demeter! Is there a way to have two cloud_spine types of bones in the same rig? The problem seems to be that the two torso bones generated have the same names. I'm trying to rig a dinosaur and it would be useful for the tail and the neck. Great videos by the way! Thanks ;)
@Tom Vonlanthen Oh I did find a work around actually! Simply using fk chain with the "position along bone" set to 0.5 for better deformation
hi =) say we wanted to use Cloudrig to generate rigs for game characters and export FBX to Unity or Unreal Engine - I assume that's possible and just a matter of setting up the rig correctly, but perhaps it would be of interest to people if there were some tutorials on that subject.
@Mogens Skjold I never really tried it myself, since I don't work with game engines, so I don't think I would be the best person for this. As far as I'm aware, just setting bendy bone density to 0 and not relying on bendy bones should be all that's needed.
@Demeter Dzadik thanks =) I did a little test yesterday of what you specified - seemed to work fine out of the box!
These videos are fantastic, thank you @DemeterDzadik Slightly off-topic question, but is there any reason this series is missing a section 7? A deprecated aspect of Cloud Rig perhaps?
@kgjonathan1995 Funny, I didn't think those numbers would reveal hidden chapters. There were some more videos planned than what were actually made, I didn't end up covering some of the more fringe and obvious rig types. :D
If you have a video tutorial that would be great for me
Hi Demeter Dzadik I want to rig the snake, which cloud rig should I use? Thank you!
@Tuan Anh Doan You should try cloud_spline_ik, I didn't make a video about it yet but it's documented on the wiki.
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