Bone-controlling-its-own-switch-layer experiment
Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 6:01 pm
Hello guys.
I have ceated a little experiment, using the bone-control script created by HeyVern and modified by Genete and myself.
I liked the results so much, that I wanted to share them with you.
Forgive me for the bad drawing, but what really matters here is that I was able to animate the arm by just using the IK bone tool, and the script figure what was the best drawing for each pose.
The setup was pretty-straightforwad:
1. I drew all the poses for the arm (12, for this simple, quick, experiment).
All poses were hand-drawn and painted in MangaStudio.
2. I have created a switch layer and called it cb.Arm - can be any name, as long as it starts with "cb.".
3. I have created a bone layer, parent to the switch layer.
In that layer, I have created two bones for the arm, and have named the lower arm bone "cb.Arm", i.e. the same name as the switch layer it is to control.
[EDIT]
4. I have attached the cb.Lua script to the bone layer
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After that, I was able to animate the arm by simply rotating thebone and creating key frames.
(I had to insert a keyframe for each frame, thou, but am going to improve the script so that it does it autamaticaly, if that is even possible).
Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgEmqxTDtuQ
Does anybody know a free website where I can upload the files to, so that everyone can have access to them?
I have a geocties account, but geocities is going to be discontinued in a couple of months, so I would not like to use it.
Cheers,
Rui
I have ceated a little experiment, using the bone-control script created by HeyVern and modified by Genete and myself.
I liked the results so much, that I wanted to share them with you.
Forgive me for the bad drawing, but what really matters here is that I was able to animate the arm by just using the IK bone tool, and the script figure what was the best drawing for each pose.
The setup was pretty-straightforwad:
1. I drew all the poses for the arm (12, for this simple, quick, experiment).
All poses were hand-drawn and painted in MangaStudio.
2. I have created a switch layer and called it cb.Arm - can be any name, as long as it starts with "cb.".
3. I have created a bone layer, parent to the switch layer.
In that layer, I have created two bones for the arm, and have named the lower arm bone "cb.Arm", i.e. the same name as the switch layer it is to control.
[EDIT]
4. I have attached the cb.Lua script to the bone layer
[/EDIT]
After that, I was able to animate the arm by simply rotating thebone and creating key frames.
(I had to insert a keyframe for each frame, thou, but am going to improve the script so that it does it autamaticaly, if that is even possible).
Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgEmqxTDtuQ
Does anybody know a free website where I can upload the files to, so that everyone can have access to them?
I have a geocties account, but geocities is going to be discontinued in a couple of months, so I would not like to use it.
Cheers,
Rui
