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Thanks...

Hirazi Blue wrote:Which rig would you say would be best/easiest to use?

Are you asking about an auto rigger or something like a full developed character such as Moom and the Malcolm rig ?

Both. I've tried using Gear, but I am having extreme difficulties trying to scale the guide to fit my characters... ;)

While Jeremie's page goes trough setting up rigs from scratch,
https://vimeo.com/user5191915/videos/page:2/sort:date

All the way to (recently added) more advanced Modular Rigging with Python in Softimage
https://vimeo.com/user5191915/videos/page:1/sort:date


Here are a few basic & quick GEAR clips ::

BVH Mocap to Gear using MOTOR




Setting-up limb scale to character,

Hirazi Blue wrote:Both. I've tried using Gear, but I am having extreme difficulties trying to scale the guide to fit my characters... ;)

Try using the Masashi Yamaguchi Rig. I posted a thread on this about a month ago. The myRig works best for me.

Download link on second post from here http://www.si-community.com/community/v ... 789#p54789

If you're having trouble scaling the rig to fit your character, you may want to try the reverse. Meaning, scale your character to fit your rig. Once the rigging part is done, you can rescale the entire rig and character from the Global Control.

xsi_fanatic wrote: Try using the Masashi Yamaguchi Rig. I posted a thread on this about a month ago. The myRig works best for me.

Download link on second post from here http://www.si-community.com/community/v ... 789#p54789

Indeed!

I thought it was part of this thread but it wasn't

xsi_fanatic wrote:Try using the Masashi Yamaguchi Rig. I posted a thread on this about a month ago. The myRig works best for me.

Thanks for the suggestion. For one thing scaling its guide seems way easier than scaling a Gear guide... (but I am sure I am doing something wrong...)
only scaling the controls for the hands give me problems ATM.
;)

Hirazi Blue wrote:Both. I've tried using Gear, but I am having extreme difficulties trying to scale the guide to fit my characters... ;)

What kind of problems are you having? I am just moving not scaling the guide parts which gives me nice resuts. Also having an independant shadow bone hierarchy solves most of my problem.

The main problem I am having, both with Gear and with MyRig, is the placement of the necessary control objects for the hands and feet.
One other issue: how do you enable symmetry on the Gear guide?

Are you using Gear or the updated Gear_MC rigging system?

There is a serie of Video on TD Survival that explain Gear_mc and they also respond to questions if you have trouble.

https://vimeo.com/tdsurvival

I am currently still using "vanilla" Gear... ;)

The gear guide doesn't have symmetry, rather you place the guide correctly on one side, then duplicate symmetry using the gear>character>guide tools ppg.

What problem do you have with the hand/finger placement?

mattmos wrote:What problem do you have with the hand/finger placement?

As a NOOB I simply haven't got a clue, where all the controls should be correctly placed when dealing with a new model...

Hirazi Blue wrote:

mattmos wrote:What problem do you have with the hand/finger placement?

As a NOOB I simply haven't got a clue, where all the controls should be correctly placed when dealing with a new model...

I recomment watching Jeremie Passerin's videos, extremely vauable information he shared in his videos that you might be OF help.

https://vimeo.com/16953680