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Post by RichLevy // Aug 3, 2008, 12:28pm

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I am working on some different type of rigs here... one in particular is a snake character, meaning he has no legs, but he does have human arms. What I am hoping to do is taking a BVH rig and motions and removing the legs for it and adding them to my lower snake tail rig. Has anyone any experience with combing different BVH rigs together and still retaining the motion. Is there anything I need to know when I do this. Experiemnts in previous TS versions were not successful, I am hoping this version is more forgiving.


Thanks!


Rich

Post by jamesmc // Aug 3, 2008, 12:31pm

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 Mr. Bones would be the one to ask about this.

There is a software called BVH hacker that let's you do quite a bit of manipulation.

Post by RichLevy // Aug 3, 2008, 12:41pm

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Thanks James, this is the link to the free program, I'll see what I can come up with, hopefully Mr. Bones or others will offer their experience also.


Rich


http://davedub.co.uk/bvhacker/

Post by jhowell // Aug 4, 2008, 7:15am

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Hi Rich, I experiment all the time with bvh motions. Here I took the default dexters skeleton and removed some limbs and joints and put it on ducky character (wait for animated gif to load). Then I dropped a "walk drunken" bvh file (used the anim clip from that) on the skeleton in the timeline...


Amazing how well bvh anim clips will work on skeletons after various limbs are removed. Like if you want to use just the upper or lower actions of an anim bvh clip on a abnormal character. :banana:


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I am working on some different type of rigs here... one in particular is a snake character, meaning he has no legs, but he does have human arms. What I am hoping to do is taking a BVH rig and motions and removing the legs for it and adding them to my lower snake tail rig. Has anyone any experience with combing different BVH rigs together and still retaining the motion. Is there anything I need to know when I do this. Experiemnts in previous TS versions were not successful, I am hoping this version is more forgiving.


Thanks!


Rich

Post by mrbones // Aug 4, 2008, 10:30am

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I think you could also use weightpainting on a negative value.

You could keep the legbones in skeleton, just paint bottom of snake positive to the hips.

That way you can keep the skeleton structure and naming the same.

Which helps when swapping bvh motion clips.
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