Characters using other obejcts with MotionStudio?

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Post by Stickman // Mar 9, 2007, 1:24pm

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I'm new to this forum, so first of all i want to say hello to everybody.


I have recently start using MotionStudio for animating my characters and I must say that it is an amazing plugin.

But now I have a little problem, I can't come up with a good way to let my characters lift up other objects whit his hands for example.


Any ideas on how to achieve that?

Post by trueBlue // Mar 9, 2007, 3:01pm

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Hello and welcome!
A very talented user "frank" has made some tutorials that you should find very helpful.
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=1497 (http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=1497)

Post by Tiles // Mar 9, 2007, 10:32pm

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You could work with two objects. The one at ground that you have to pick up. And the same object glued to the hand. When picking up, turn the one at ground invisible, and make the one glued to the hand visible. It's just a matter of animation then to adjust the hand and the glued object so that it matches with the object at the ground.

Post by Stickman // Mar 11, 2007, 6:46am

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Thanks for the help. :)


I solved the problem by first place the object to pick up where I wanted it to be and made a copy of it.

Then i just animated the character and copy the keyframe where he touch the object and paste it at the first frame so i could glue one of the two objects to the hand and make the other one invsible.
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