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Cyclopstrich 2 Questions on Morphs and Rigging in Studio

DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165
edited January 2017 in Carrara Discussion

Here is a freebie Carrara figure.  Kind of silly, but you get what you pay for.  wink

EDIT:  Discovered a few stray polygons in the beak area.  Should be fixed now.  Zip replaced.

This will be the mount for the cavalry in my upcoming Carrara challenge 30 entry.  Feel free to use in any way you wish. 

See attached zip file

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  • LlynaraLlynara Posts: 4,770

    LOL Thank you! He's adorable! Does he eat much? 

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,200

    heart thankyou

  • mmoirmmoir Posts: 821

    Looks like a fun character.

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548

    So cute lol!  Thank you!

  • mindsongmindsong Posts: 1,701

    lol,

    tnx a bunch for the critter!, and a healthy healthy healthy new year to you all. (If you have health, you can work on the happy/prosperous details at your leisure!)

    best wishes and thanks to all for a great 3D year! Y'all rock!

    --ms

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,050

    can also double as a Cyclopstemu...

    thanks and Merry Christmas... smiley

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,200

    I read cyclop stem u cheeky and thought WTF?

    CyclopsEmu ahhhhhh laugh

     

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,543

    Wow! Christmas just keeps giving, and giving!

    Thank you diomede!!!

    Merry Christmas!

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165

    Hey gang, sorry.  I discovered a few stray polygons in the beak.  Should be fixed now.  I have replaced the zip file with an update.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,543

    ...and right on Christmas Day, too! Thanks Santa! :)

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584
    Dartanbeck said:

    ...and right on Christmas Day, too! Thanks Santa! :)

     

    Mmm. yum. The rigging tasted a bit stringy though . . .! wink Seriously though, it's awesome - thanks Diomede. 

    Easter eggs'll be in the shops tomorrow . . .

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165

    Will be making a saddle and harness soon if anyone is interested.  I think parenting will be better than attaching to skeleton, but open to suggestions.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,543
    diomede said:

    Will be making a saddle and harness soon if anyone is interested.  I think parenting will be better than attaching to skeleton, but open to suggestions.

    Another challenge to overcome! Sweet! Can't wait to see how you tackle that one!

     

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165
    edited January 2017

    Hmmm.  Trying to make a conforming saddle and harness for the cyclopstritch.  Should match.  I literally copied the mesh to begin the harness.  And, I copied the bones (plus an extra beyond each) for the skeleton.  When I attach the harness mesh to the harness bones and use "fit to" in order to conform to the cyclopstritch, the mesh of the harness crumples.

    Does "fit to" work wth custom Carrara figures?  Is there a tutorial somewhere?  Seems like it should work. 

     

    I realize that I could simply add the harness to the mesh in the same bone structure, but that usually requires redoing the weightmaps.  Would like to avoid that.

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165

    I can confirm that attaching both the cyclopstritch mesh and the harness mesh to the same bones works.  Still curious about creating items that use the "fi to" function instead of attaching to the same skeleton, if anyone knows.

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  • VyusurVyusur Posts: 2,235

    Such a cute creature! Diomede, I've not any experience yet of conforming my own pieces of clothes or any similar stuff to my figures, but if so I will share with you.

  • 3DAGE3DAGE Posts: 3,311

    Fit to ,. requires the same skeleton,. that's how conforming clothing works.

    the bone names in the clothing are matched to follow the bones in the figure.

     

  • VyusurVyusur Posts: 2,235

    Thank you, 3DAGE! I will keep it in mind when approach this task.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165

    Thanks.  In this case, everything should be the same.

     

    diomede said:

    Should match.  I literally copied the mesh to begin the harness.  And, I copied the bones (plus an extra beyond each) for the skeleton. 

     

     

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165

    Have the revised cyclopstritch with wings.  Preparing to rig in Studio.

    Have named the polygon groups.  Exported as an obj with the morphs and skinning option checked.  I loaded in Studio but I can't find the morphs to open and close the eyes, etc. 

    Am I doing something wrong?

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165
    edited January 2017

    Trying to follow the rigging instructions but the menu never appears.  The instructions say to select all of the bones in the hierarchy then right click in the pane to bring up a menu of weightmapping options.  I have tried but no menu appears.

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  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,543
    diomede said:

    Have the revised cyclopstritch with wings.  Preparing to rig in Studio.

    Have named the polygon groups.  Exported as an obj with the morphs and skinning option checked.  I loaded in Studio but I can't find the morphs to open and close the eyes, etc. 

    Am I doing something wrong?

    The normal way to add morphs to a figure in Daz Studio is by importing a new obj of the shape change and using morph loader pro to add the obj information to the figure. Yeah... PITA compared to just adding them directly in Carrara, but....

     

    diomede said:

    Trying to follow the rigging instructions but the menu never appears.  The instructions say to select all of the bones in the hierarchy then right click in the pane to bring up a menu of weightmapping options.  I have tried but no menu appears.

    Make sure you're in Edit Mode

    Just trying to help. I've never made my own rigged figure like this. But I think we have to be in weight map edit mode. You should see options for painting and manipulating weight maps. Wow... It's been a while since I've played in DS.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165

    Thanks, Dart.  Unfortunately, the menu for the options is not appearing when I follow the directions in that Daz wiki

    Putting this older video for general weightmap instead of triax here for further reference.  Older version of Daz, I think.

     

    https://youtu.be/FOKTIW7anH8

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165

    another resource to add

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165

    Makes sense to link to Rob's channel because it has multiple videos for figure setup

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSBsiYvJ9hFzW5_Y6ndCtkA

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165
    edited January 2017

    Found it!

    As usual, there was a very small step that I had forgotten because I hadn't used the figure setup tools in a while.  I had the pane that contains the joint editor open, but I didn't have it set to the joint editor.  Instead, I had it set to the manipulater tool by default.  It is amazing how easily I forget these simple steps if I haven't used something in a while.  I had to go back through Blondie9999's gingerman tutorial more than once to figure out which step I was missing.  It may be just becase I am more used to it, but I find Carrara's figure setup system much more straightforward. 

     

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