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  • Bi-Folding door IK System

    Posted by Ryan Brant on May 20, 2020 at 9:43 am

    Hi Guys

    Hope everyone is well!

    I was wondering if someone could help me with this problem?…

    So I’m trying to animate a bi-folding door. I have a 3-panel bi-folding door system. I have set Door3 (the last panel to open) and Door2 (the middle panel) as an IK System, so that they animate together appropriately. The issue that I am having is that I can’t get the doors to close. This is because the pivot point of the two doors needs to go beyond the IK setup (the IK green line). I have included a diagram of what I am trying to portray.

    Is this possible to do with the IK setup or do I have to animate it a different way?

    Thank you in advance.

    Ryan

    Bi-folding Door Open

    Bi-Folding Door NOT Closing

    IK Diagram

    Ryan Brant replied 5 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Frank Feijen

    May 20, 2020 at 12:32 pm

    I’d rather use a bit of espresso instead of IK’s. An example

  • Isidora Glenn

    June 5, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    This is great! Could you please help me figure out how to add more opening doors to this XPresso controller?
    Where would you add count?

  • Ryan Brant

    June 10, 2020 at 3:17 pm

    Thank you for this, it’s a big help. I just need to figure out what you’ve done as I am not great with XPresso. I will experiment & familiarize myself with XPresso now that I know this is the way forward.

    Thank You

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