Monash_S1 2011_3D_Week 04

week 4

MentalRay Sun & MentalRay Sky
View: Camera Attribute Editor:MentalRay: Environment Shader:Mia_PhysicalSky1:Red/Blue Shift

Skin Binding & weight painting Practice
Tips:
1) Setup Blendshapes first
2) Delete history and FT model before use "Smooth bind"

Practice files:
http://hotfile.com/dl/111711516/e8cca2b/weight_painting_Start.mb.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/111711639/349bac1/weight_painting_finished.mb.html


Full Body Rigging Workflow:

01) choose sideview, and animation shelf
02) Double click on Joint tool and check Orientation = xyz, Second axis world orientation = +y
03) Setup joints from hip on one side
      hip, knee, ankle, heel, ball  and toe
04) select knee joint and RMC choose "set prefered angle"
05) go to front view, move hip joint to position (left side)
06) select all joints by double click on hip joint
07) Animation:Skeleton:Mirror Joints (option box: mirror axis)
08) check orientation on new mirrored joints  (need red axis facing down)
09) use "Orient joint" tool to fix  orientation problem
10) choose hip joint (left), Modify : "Prefix Hierarchy Names", type "left_"
11) apply same procedure to joints (right) with "right_"
12) create "root" joint, by just clicking once between hip joins and moving it up a bit, then rename it with "root"
13) create "l_pelvis_shift" and "r_pelvis_shift" joints
14) setup parent-child relationships between both joints
15) use "orient tool" to fix orientation issues
    Display: Transform Display: Local Rotation Axes : components- all objects on.
16) go to side view
17) build back joints (b1,b2,b3,b4,shoulder, neck,head,headtop)
18) build joints for arms (l_shoulder, l_elbow, l_forearm,l_wrist)
19) mirror joints and re-orient joints
20) refine 2 elbow joints from top view, RMC "Set Prefered Angle"
21) setup parent-child relationships between "root" and "b1"
22) setup parent-child relationships between shoulder joints and l_shoulder / r_shoulder
23) build finger joints (l_m1, l_m2, l_m3, l_m4) (l_i1, l_i2, l_i3,l_i4)

Practice file:
http://hotfile.com/dl/111712711/059a75e/character_Start.mb.html