in the moderately close time horizon - mcj_i_k - arms and legs pose helper

mCasual

the idea is this : you select a hand, run a script, a null node appears at the position of the hand

now, each time someone moves the null node, a mysterious entity ( a callback ) re-poses the arm so that the hand reaches the target

mCasual

oh no it's a tragedy !!! the new forum doesnt accept animated gifs as attachments, 

 

StratDragon

mCas, you need to stop using "soon" - "Soon" has a bad connotation here and your work turnaround from conception to completion is pretty quick.

I suggest the following "sooner than soon", "practically in your runtime or "Lickey-split"

anyway thanks again for cool stuff!

Limun

Thank you Casual

EDIT:

Btw.i dont see link for download, but i know where to find it..i memorised your site

Skelch

you create such awesome stuff!

mCasual

so it's somewhat related to mcjAutoLimb and mcjAutoLimb2014

but it's "live"

if you know mcjAutoLimb, you know it's for arms and legs only

( and can save you hundreds of animation work hours per year, really you need it )

the "targeter could be a foot, toes, or something parented to a foot

and it could be a hand, finger or anything parented to a hand, like the point of a sword even!

mcj_i_k will add pose-solving for trunk nodes!

 

example 1, you parent a node to Michael's nose tip,

using mcj_i_k you'll be able to pull his head by the nose

the head Joint's Bend control will serve as a length adjustment for the neck-to-nose length

and the neck joint orientation will serve to "point" the neck-to-nose vector to the target

 

example 2, you make Michael's head the "targeter", so you can pull him by the head.

The neck  Bend control will serve as a length adjustment for the chest-to-head length

and the chest joint orientation will serve to "point" the chest-to-head vector to the target

 

note that this is a pose tool, i dont know yet if i'll add animation features ( or if it can work for that purpose as-is )

 

 

mCasual

By the way i have a Blog and a deviantart since about July 1st and i plan to add something everyday for years and years

http://mcasualjacques3d.blogspot.ca/

 

here you can see i parented a red ball to Amy/Aiko3's head

the neck and head joints are used to do the pose-solve

 

 

mCasual

another example

the red ball is the targeter and is parented to the head

the neck-bend helps set the chest-to-ball length ( so that it matches the chest-to-target length )

 

the chest orientation ( side-side too! ) helps "point" the chest-ball-vector toward  the target

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EoVMPtbPtss/VZ7ozpZwqbI/AAAAAAAABeQ/emvBs33rqEc/s1600/necki.gif

mCasual

here you can see that the "target" node has a payload

it remembers which node to bend ( LimbHinge ), in this case the neck

which node to re-orient ( LimbRoot) , it was the chest, but the user can change it to the abdomen or hip

and it remembers that the red Sphere ( Targeter ) is the object that it must strive to move to the target location

 

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in other news i did test it for animation purposes and it works

i animated the target node

then i stepped through 30 frames 1 by 1

the script adjusted the pose for each frame thereby keyframing those poses

then i deleted the target node

so i obtained an animation !

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release possibly tomorrow

possibly being a cleverly elastic promise ! :)

 

 

mCasual

tomorrow, there should be a release = but i think its another forum thread! 

for a change i did something with genesis!

well AIko5

but it's not the usual A3 

 

mCasual

so as i was saying ... today we'll have mcjAimAnim

which just re-orients a joint to solve an Aim, 

it will work for Pose work

and it will work for animations

but the thread for mcjAimAnim is here

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/59188/later-today-1-of-2-mcjaimanim-target-targeter-rotator-animate#latest