Damp Track Tail (Blender Tutorial) - 2024

[@ThadeousM]

Love how it’s sounds like you’re about to burst with laughter through the whole vid. Exceptionally useful tut!

[@sweatygreasestudio]

Very fun tutorial and very fun guide man, so cool! thank you for sharing this! I love you

[@HampsterGirl]

Best Tail rig!! GOAT!!

[@kurenai_chi]

this tutorial is actually fucking nuts, WOW. im always trying to find a cool tail rig thats fairly easy to follow and doesnt take one million bones to set up, aand here we have it!!! thank you soo much

[@debokkavadebokkava796]

great , amazing , i was searching for this one

[@tylerscoding]

np

[@StarsStellar]

If anyone is unable to Ctrl+Shift+C at 5:12 and you have it on pose mode, then I suggest seeing if anything else in your PC has that same hotkey (like a AMD graphics card)

[@vivianmello1278]

just when I'm starting to learn blender! I'm trying to sculpt a cute fox, a quadruped, in my style, and her legs aren't normal quadruped legs. So i'm heaving a really hard time founding alternatives hahahaha thank you for your vid!

[@tylerscoding]

Thats exciting how did the fox turn out id love to see it😊

[@mubarizsaeed187]

How do I add a rigged tail to an existing character in Blender that already has weights and a full armature setup? When I try to use automatic weights, it destroys all my existing character weights. I just want to add tail bones and have them affect only the tail portion of my mesh while keeping all other weights intact. What's the proper workflow for this

[@cleytonmarciosouza5333]

Wow! Great tutorial! Thanks!

[@senwongsenimation]

This is really helpful! Thank you very much!

[@tylerscoding]

Im glad I was able to help 😊

[@shadowfelled]

7:30 - noticed when I set both to Local, all my bones go nuts as if they twisted out of time - ie, they're not flat anymore. Any clue on how that heppens?

[@gregoliveira1809]

Any chance you can make one showing the correct way to animate and render this? I found this very helpful but not sure if I'm using it correctly.

[@beccadepotato]

thanks for the vid!

[@cyberwolf570]

Thank you so much for this video! It really helped me :)

[@tylerscoding]

Np, I love teaching blender lol

[@kingjw9]

I got it to work but when I move the thing the tip of the tail Texter starts breaking apart how do I fix this?

[@ezgit6519]

Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

[@tylerscoding]

np

[@cg_lexus]

But its creating dependency cycle, how to fix it? Or if I understand correctly, is it used for this effect? Thank you very much anyway! Thanks to you, I understood my problem :)))

[@Silly-goober-w7w]

I wish I could install blender but I'm out of ram 😭

[@julienteral9140]

is there any way to add collisions to this? ive tried adding rigid body passives + collisions n there's still overlap between the two meshes ;/

[@tylerscoding]

I haven't experimented enough with bone collision's to give a good answer, but there are some addons that I believe do it though I haven't tried them myself one is Wiggly Bones which also does something similar to damptrack. Another method is to bake cloth sim to bones

[@ManagerClodagh-qq5fp]

Hi! Awesome video dude, it really helped me with my project! One problem tho, there is one chain that no matter if I follow this video word by word, the deforming bones will separate when rotating instead of staying as a chain. Of course the effect is the same but I can’t tell why is that happening… I’ll be forever grateful if you could give me some type of answer. Cheers!

[@tylerscoding]

Thank you 😊, and I believe if you add 1 keyframe to the root bone I usually do scale it should fix your issue its an odd thing that happens with damptrack but when you add a keyframe it usually fixes any issues like that.

[@wingedaxolotlproductions5320]

@@tylerscoding thank you SO MUCH for this! i had this problem too, and im glad i found the solution!

[@giorgi_baramidze]

thanks

[@tylerscoding]

Np😊

[@PhamHaiDangArenaHN]

thanks you so much, this have me a lot. ;*

[@DonaldDrennan]

So, this is great for real time controlling the tail, but, how is this helpful in animating?

[@davepenajr]

10:11 I don't have the MDD Bone Tools box

[@tylerscoding]

For the custom properties its below that category so you shouldn't need it

[@tuanngo-ei6pt]

a question pls, what if i use only damped track constraint, I found that the same result

[@tylerscoding]

The damptrack has a delay on it so I use an extra bone so the rotation is always in the exact direction you want, however the damptrack method is great even without the second set

[@POLY__3D]

HI mom, I'm on TV !

[@helloitsokyrago]

i have to export in alembic in order to use it because it resets and messes up hair particles in render

[@tylerscoding]

Sorry for the late responce I can help if you weren't able to find a solution

[@helloitsokyrago]

@@tylerscoding i think exporting is only way we can stop it from resetting

[@cozz124]

i still remember your comment "finally i have all knowledge sculpting modeling texturing fluid sim rigging animation jiggle physics"

[@belpetr1]

This is an incorrect setting. Because it uses a cyclic dependency. You cannot define the purpose of restricting the bone descendant. This leads to failures. This is especially noticeable in complex installations. Instead, create a soft body. Tie it to the first bone of the chain and set the vertices of this object as the target for the bones.

[@Whitespider02]

It's not Useless, These techniques used in Game Industry ( I Mean in Every Game ) cause you can't Simulate everything in Game that's why these techniques are Made 🙂

[@belpetr1]

@@Whitespider02 Of course, you can do whatever you want. But in this case, there is a fundamental mistake in rigging. You cannot specify a restriction on a bone that is lower in the hierarchy (on a descendant bone). It turns out to be a cyclical dependence. After you have moved your system, select all the bones and try to return it to its original form using the alt + R command. You will see that you need to click several times. This is due to the fact that the computer does not process the data in the correct sequence.

[@emeraldviolet2001]

You are correct, anyone that tries to use this rig for more than a single movement will see for themselves. Just get wiggle bone addon.

[@tylerscoding]

This method does create a circular dependancy which is why one bone needs to have a keyframe, in this method you have to play the timeline to reset the bones. never the less its a very nice technique if used right. the purpos of this method is to avoid sim stuff lol

[@DarkHarpuia]

You're creating a dependency cycle tho...

[@ISlayerSwift]

I don't like that voice but ty, Nice tutorial

[@ISlayerSwift]

(sorry for say that, you're a kidness person)

[@tylerscoding]

Thank you and lol

[@AMTx1138]

@@tylerscoding I think your voice is really chill and peaceful fwiw

[@cj5787]

voice is strangly annoying. but ok. thanks for the tutorial.

[@ZoneXanimate]

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