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Maya character rigging tutorial on how to use a control object with custom attributes to curl a characters fingers. Covers finger joint placement, adding custom attributes, and hiding common attributes. Part 2 covers set driven key.
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14 responses to “Maya finger rigging tutorial using SDK Part 1 of 2”
after i do bind skin,my finger donot rotate correctly only joint rotate correctly..wats the problem??
Nathan, your video saved my ass.
well when i freeze the joint it rotation goes to zero but u told the thumb should be rotate at 45 degree so wen 2 freeze is i am dng some mistake plz guide
Thank you very much for making this video, it's been very useful to me, your explanations are clear and precise enough to understand why do this or that without getting lost in too much information =) Now I'm going to try to follow up part 2 and create some expressions for my hand!
@nathanronaldwebb ok Thank you m8
@ktmbua To parent the finger joints to the wrist, select the top join for each finger (the knuckle joints), then select the wrist joint, and hit the P button on the keyboard. To parent anything in Maya, select the children, then the parent last, and hit the P button
how do you parent those finger joints with the wrist joint? Did you press some keys?
@CalvinBGood I think I understand your problem now. When you select the top joint of a finger in the 3D view in Maya, it looks like you're selecting all the fingers, but it really doesn't; it just highlights the children, but they're not selected. Use the outliner to select all the joints for one finger. That way, when you rotate them, all the joints in the fingers will rotate. Tell me if that helps.
@nathanronaldwebb It's not just the file though, the Maya I use (2010) doesn't rotate the other joints when I rotate one like at 6:28
@CalvinBGood Hello. I'm not quite sure what your trouble is without looking at the file. You can send it to me via nathanwebb@hotmail.com and I'll take a look.
When I rotate my rig for the fingers it only rotates what I've selected and not letting the rest follow it, any tips there?
@themedip
Hi. Look on my youtube channel for the 2nd part. It's called the same thing, but it's "2 of 2".
i like the tutorial alot, but where is the second one?
that is such a nice looking hand … love the model.