• Maxon Cinema 4D

  sissor joint

  Posted by Ronny Traufeller on March 9, 2011 at 2:07 pm

  hey!

  two questions:

  first:

  was thinking about creating a scissor joint situation, but in the end it hurts my brain a bit to much 🙂

  something like that:

  https://www.newgape.de/media/images/info/image_11100402_1.jpg

  maybe a couple of 2 piece joints along a ik spline could do the job,
  but thats to messi and unattractive to build.

  did anyone knows a good way, espiacially something that is able to bend maybe …

  second:

  when i scale an ik-spline, it seems that it is not scaling the tangents i think, so the rig starts to fold itself and make strange stuff.

  did anyone had the same problem before?

  thanks,
  Ronny!

  traufeller.de

  Ronny Traufeller replied 15 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  March 9, 2011 at 5:56 pm

  Regarding the scissor joint, there’s probably a really clever way to do it using constraints and some math, but that’s not how my brain works. But I was able to put something together using MoGraph and a little Xpresso. The spline wrap can be applied to provide a bend.

  1735_accordionjoint.c4d.zip

  As for the second question, I don’t think you should be scaling the IK spline; rather, move the handles to change the length.
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  Ronny Traufeller

  March 10, 2011 at 2:52 pm

  thanks for your file, seems that pretty much people using r12 here, i am on 11.5 🙁 (there should be a way export to older versions !?)

  the thing with the scaling is just occuring when i import charakter
  into a scene where it needs to be scaled to fit in the scene. thats nothing i can abandon, i cant scale the scene to fit to the rig. but i just relized that problem after building that complex rig. noooooo!

  🙂

  thanks,
  Ronny!

  traufeller.de

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