• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Pole Vector Issue

  Posted by Spencer Noble on July 8, 2015 at 7:08 pm

  Hi. I apologize for the basic question, but its keeping me from progressing on a project I have.

  I’m trying to get an IK chain to bend a certain way so I thought I’d set up a Pole Vector using a Null below the chain to influence it. But when I try to drag the Null into the ‘Object’ line to make the pole vector the ‘object’ option is grayed out.

  I don’t know how to change this simple, annoying issue.

  I’m used to maya so I’m sure this is really basic, sorry.

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 11 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  July 8, 2015 at 10:34 pm

  Do you per chance have the IK method set to 3D?
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  Spencer Noble

  July 9, 2015 at 2:29 pm

  I tried switching it from 2D to 3D and back again with no change, but I managed to set an object as the pole vector by creating an IK tag for my joint and manually setting a goal instead of selecting all the joints and creating an IK chain.

  Thanks for your help though.
  A lot of your answers in these threads have helped me in the past

  Cheers
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  July 9, 2015 at 3:26 pm

  Glad you worked it out. The only way I could recreate your problem was to set the IK method to 3D, so I’m not sure what happened.

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