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Animation Rigging... more advanced IK

Discussion in 'Animation Rigging' started by nsxdavid, May 3, 2019.

  1. nsxdavid

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    I was happy to see that the Animation Rigging had some IK constraints. For more sophisticated uses, what I need is a FABRIK solver that has individual joint types on the chain. Specifically limits in degrees of freedom at each joint.

    The conical example is the Final IK asset which implements this very well.

    Is that possible now in some way I am not seeing?
     
    nsxdavid, May 3, 2019
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  2. OlivierDionne

    OlivierDionne

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    Hi nsxdavid,

    The current version of the chainIK shipping with the package only implements the unconstrained FABRIK solver. It would be nice to eventually support the constrained version out of the box at some point. In the meantime, you could always implement the algorithm using the animation rigging toolkit since it was meant to be extended with custom constraints.
     
    OlivierDionne, May 7, 2019
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  3. Apocraphilia

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  4. nsxdavid

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    Cool, but don't forget to try prismatic constraints too! Those are arguably easier to code anyway.
     
    nsxdavid, Oct 22, 2019
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  5. winxalex

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    I saw multi Aim constraint have some rotational constrains. Definitely there is need for joint constrains, spherical, pyramidal and curvical as in Final IK. TwoBones IK seem very basic, not efficient for Human animations, cause as in demo, need of additional target, hint and bones animation, when can't be solved with those constrains.
     
    winxalex, Nov 7, 2019
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