Instant limb *Major update, now a tool*

Tagirijus · Post by **Tagirijus** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:35 am

Just amazing that people script things for free (even if it started just for your own usage or something like this maybe)... at least it's free for members... just very kind; thanks a lot, I appreciate this!

ponysmasher · Post by **ponysmasher** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:10 am

Tagirijus wrote:Just amazing that people script things for free (even if it started just for your own usage or something like this maybe)... at least it's free for members... just very kind; thanks a lot, I appreciate this!

Well there are advantages to sharing. Thanks to sharing Vern could help me solve the parent issue.

The collective mind is greater than the one.

Man, that sounds like communist propaganda...

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:54 am

ponysmasher wrote: The collective mind is greater than the one.

Man, that sounds like communist propaganda...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathed ... the_Bazaar
It is not communism. It is open source software.
-G

ponysmasher · Post by **ponysmasher** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:18 am

Well it sure ain't capitalism and that makes Glenn Beck a sad boy.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:26 am

ponysmasher wrote:Because of my evil socialist tendency to share?

Whohoo! another evil socialist on the forum!

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:04 pm

cool man

thanks for the script!

However, i found the joint 'joins' a little 'angular' for my taste - but if you select the outer two bunch of points and convert them to curves rather than peaks (Ctrl+M) it makes a much nicer (for my taste) curved joint

Before:

After:

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:24 pm

Maybe Add an option on the fill caps to a taper. kind of like this.
Just on the 2 fills on either side of the arm where the elbow meets the lower arm. Any ways this is a nice script and I see everyone using it.

ponysmasher · Post by **ponysmasher** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:41 pm

But a taper would go past the stroke when the limb is rotated. Is the taper meant to make a nicer overlapping line?
I guess it would work if you only had it on one side if that's the case but then you'd lose the ability to be able to rotate the limb in any direction.

Or have I completely misunderstood what you meant?

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:52 pm

ponysmasher wrote:But a taper would go past the stroke when the limb is rotated. Is the taper meant to make a nicer overlapping line?
I guess it would work if you only had it on one side if that's the case but then you'd lose the ability to be able to rotate the limb in any direction.

Or have I completely misunderstood what you meant?

I took your script and made an arm and just moved the top point up on the fill and did some curvatures (showed in my image) and it worked GREAT. It works for both sides. The top point for the fills follow the curve of the line.

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:10 pm

This is what I mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY8-Yk93-kw

ponysmasher · Post by **ponysmasher** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:03 am

sbtamu wrote:This is what I mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY8-Yk93-kw

Okay, I thought the tapered ends would stick out but evidently it works.
I guess it could be automated. I might look into it when I have the time.

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:59 am

For some reason this is happening to the instant limb script when I try to use it. It worked just fine a few days ago.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

DK · Post by DK » Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:14 am

I got the same message after I'd forgotten how to use the script properly You have to create a Bone Layer and a Vector layer then create two bones. Highlight the Vector layer before running the script.

Cheers
D.K

ponysmasher · Post by **ponysmasher** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:41 am

Yeah, I've gotten that error too. I'm going to look into it but I have a lot of work to do right now. In the meantime you can try selecting another bone and running the script but then pressing cancel in the dialog. I think that sometimes works.

I'm also working on a tool version of the script that displays a preview of the limb on top of the actual bone in the work area since setting radius and line width in the preview window is kind of hard.

Sneak preview:

ErikAtMapache · Post by **ErikAtMapache** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 7:22 am

I just tried out your script. Very nice. I will definitely use it. Thanks a lot.