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stephen thomas
25th May 2016 - 17:47
Why do you set up drivers for subsurf when you can control the subsurf of the whole scene from Scene/Simplify? Is there a practical difference between the two?
Juan Pablo Bouza
25th May 2016 - 18:47
Hi @stephen thomas:
Just to have more individual control. If you have many objects with subsurf in a scene and you just want to check the facial expressions of one character with subsurf on, it is the way to do it. Otherwise all objects in the scene would have subsurf on and playback speed would become impossible.
I don't know, you could also put different objects in different layers to solve this, it's up to you actually ;)
You are free not to do it this way anyway!! :D
Bone-Studio
23rd March 2016 - 21:17
This rig is really cool Juan Pablo.
Can you use DeltaMush with BlendRig to improve deformation and volume preservation?
Cheers and congrats.
Juan Pablo Bouza
24th March 2016 - 01:00
Hi @juangea!
Yes, of course you can, although I wouldn't recommend to just throw the corrective smooth modifier to the model, as it gives jumpy results if the original deformation is too bad and intersecting. So, what I usually do is to create a vertex group for the corrective smooth, and apply it only in specific areas.
With BlenRIg, the body deformation is very good in most cases, so I usually use a little bit of corrective smooth just in the face.
I'll cover a bit about that in the face chapters! See you!
Bone-Studio
25th March 2016 - 01:32
@Juan Pablo Bouza: Awesome :)
Thanks!
Ben Muensterman
12th May 2016 - 23:11
When I select the IK Hand bone, I am only able to rotate on the x-axis. When I try to move with "g", nothing happens. Do I need to switch the arm between IK and FK? How can I do this?
Juan Pablo Bouza
13th May 2016 - 00:43
Hi @Ben Muensterman:
You sure you turned off the reporportion mode??
Ben Muensterman
13th May 2016 - 00:57
@Juan Pablo Bouza: Thank you for replying so quickly. I did have reporportion mode turned off. If I turn it on and back off again, the hands will move freely. However, the shoulders are then given a new default position that is not what I intended. Maybe a mistake I made somewhere earlier in the process?
Juan Pablo Bouza
13th May 2016 - 01:05
@Ben Muensterman:
Mmmmmm, I should see the file... wanna send it to jpbouza gmail?
Juan Pablo Bouza
13th May 2016 - 01:19
@Ben Muensterman:
So, you turned repoportion mode on, fit the rig and then baked the mdef cage and the armature? After baking the armature, did you go into Edit mode and run the fix joints and calc roll operators?
Ben Muensterman
13th May 2016 - 02:21
@Juan Pablo Bouza: I sent an email with the .blend file. Yes, I have been following the videos, and I am pretty sure I ran both operators.
Juan Pablo Bouza
13th May 2016 - 03:41
@Ben Muensterman:
File corrected and mailed! :)
Ben Muensterman
13th May 2016 - 04:08
@Juan Pablo Bouza: BlenRig is wonderful so far, and you have really gone above and beyond with helping me out. Thanks so much!
Juan Pablo Bouza
13th May 2016 - 04:16
@Ben Muensterman:
No problem! :) Let me know if you find yourself in trouble again!
kevin ferrand
16th May 2016 - 15:42
hi, sorry for my english in advance, I have a problem with the fk controlers, they don't work at all, only ik work, i switch to IK/FK mode in the T menu but nothing change, even if i open a new file with no character rigging. It seems to me that i process like you. can you help me please?
kevin ferrand
16th May 2016 - 15:48
it seems that's a problem with "copy transform constraints" when i switch off the bones that i want to move in fk, that work... maybe It miss a drivers to control that.
Juan Pablo Bouza
16th May 2016 - 15:56
Hi @kevin ferrand:
Check if you have the option called "Auto run python scripts" in the blender preferences - file
kevin ferrand
16th May 2016 - 16:11
@Juan Pablo Bouza: thank you very much, it was the problem, that's work. and thank for this very good addons.
Robert Wesseling
24th May 2017 - 23:47
Hi, not sure if you are still active here, but in my case I want to use automatic weighting for (at least) the fingers. I cannot figure out how and what bones I have to select. I got the error message all the time "Bone Heat Weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones" while the bones in beautifully in the fingers.
Update: Ahh, I found out that I had to delete doubles, and remove mesh not connected.
Pascal Ferrère
12th October 2017 - 08:14
Hi Juan,
First thanks a lot, this plugin is really great. I do have a question though.
I made a rig using the plugin and following your tutorial, overall everything works great except for the neck of my character. When I try to rotate 'neck_fk_ctrl' (just like you do in the video) nothing happens. It seems like the neck controls on my character are locked or not being considered. Am I missing something? Any tip for me?
Thanks. Pascal
SDCHANG
3rd May 2019 - 03:21
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