[Bf-funboard] Empties in the bone hierarchy

[Nathan Vegdahl]

> so it only took him several screen clicks in Maya to get him to 90+%.  Like
> I said, auto-rigging scripts are the way to go.  And these scripts should do
> more then just rig the characters.  They should build the UI to control the
> characters as well...

   You have no idea how much I agree with you about that.
Unfortunately, Blender as it stands right now doesn't have good enough
support in scripting to allow for that sort of thing.  It's one of the
things I'm really, really looking forward to doing with 2.5's new
scripting capabilities.

   In general I'm not a fan of off-rig controls, though.  As an
animator I like to feel like I'm actually grabbing and moving the
character itself.  Having the controls (or even just shortcuts to
selection) be in some control panel always feels extremely awkward to
me.  Personal preference, though.

   But yeah, auto-rigging scripts?  Way ahead of you.  I've been
waiting to do that ever since I started rigging the fingers for BBB.
;-)

--Nathan V

2009/3/30 Sangwoo Hong <sahngwoo at gmail.com>:
> It also depends on where you work too.  While I was at Disney, they insisted
> on having a "control panel" for any given character which included screen
> grabs of the character in a spread eagle pose and its mug shot with the
> controls positioned in and around what they control.  Apparently "animators"
> are too "artistic" to deal with technical stuff like grabbing "empties"
> there.  Ironically this wasn't as much work as it sounds like because the
> guy who worked on this stuff had figured out most of his job as MEL scripts
> so it only took him several screen clicks in Maya to get him to 90+%.  Like
> I said, auto-rigging scripts are the way to go.  And these scripts should do
> more then just rig the characters.  They should build the UI to control the
> characters as well...
> phong.
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Nathan Vegdahl <cessen at cessen.com> wrote:
>>
>> (David Bryant)
>> > So, most pro rig rig controls use simple controls (boxes,
>> > circles,crosses,spheres).
>>
>>   Most professionally produced rigs use simple shapes because the
>> riggers making them are either lazy, or are on too strict of deadlines
>> to make good control shapes.
>
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