Intro to Rigging in C4D: Part 3 - Constraints & C-Motion

[@TheArtOfThom]

Rigging has always been a massive thorn in my side, and this series has been so helpful! Very comprehensive and can be easily adapted to any object. Thanks!

[@Joeherman]

You're welcome. Cheers!

[@DavidLevinson]

Great review on weighting and Cmotion!

[@june_niesein_music]

He s really a cool guy! Thxs Maxon to bring this in!!! of course also thanks to Joe for his expertise!!!

[@4dsocean]

This class opens my eyes to the wonderworld of C4d, thanks so much!

[@Joeherman]

I'm glad to hear that and that you are liking this course. Cheers! - Joe.

[@Alex_zer0_Shoveller]

Thanks Joe! I'm using c4d for work (trained in maya) and I was able to rig a chinese dragon with full ik controls/pose morphs/constraints etc. thanks to this series :) absolute lifesaver!!

[@Joeherman]

Cool! Let me know if I can see it somewhere!

[@Alex_zer0_Shoveller]

@@Joeherman For sure, i’ll send a link through when the project is done! :)

[@brianmcmahon7711]

Recreated the pantograph that was exploding in pose morph, using bones and constraints. Works perfect. Thanks. It was all in Part 1.

[@Joeherman]

That's great! Yes, pantographs would indeed need to be set up with joints and constraints. I'm glad it worked out.

[@edsuckling]

I've found this a really excellent series, and Joe's explanations are very clear. I'm coming over to C4D from 3DS Max, which has taken some getting used to, and these have really helped. Thank you very much.

[@Joeherman]

You're welcome. Good luck with the switch.

[@slackdave]

There's a bit of ooopsing and little mistakes, but that's great, cause then you learn to figure out what has gone wrong too, so you know what to look for when you make mistakes yourself in the future!

[@tipographica]

Joe, that's amazing! Thank you very much!

[@Joeherman]

Thank you very much! I am glad you like it. Cheers! - Joe

[@briansmithphotos]

Thanks for this great tutorial Joe and Elly - and thanks for getting it and the project files available so quickly. I didn't make the live session today so catching up now.

[@Joeherman]

You're welcome, and thank you for your comment. All files should be there now. Cheers!

[@ssjenforcer191191191]

To scale the whole bird rig you just put the joints and the model objects all into the same null, then hold 5 and scale it up or down. I do it with mixamo animated characters and it works fine.

[@Joeherman]

Thank you. I forgot about that!

[@ssjenforcer191191191]

An alternative to changing the Range Mapper Input Upper degree value is simply to double the Output Upper to a higher value, and you would get the same result.

[@Joeherman]

Good point

[@abdkhan5677]

Thank you soo much for this beautifull class Tnx ❤

[@Joeherman]

You're welcome!

[@IsaacRiches-m8x]

16:04 - Perhaps the problem here is that the pose morph tag was set up to points before the object was editable. Good to know that when you're setting up a tag the object needs to have the correct attributes.

[@jedezign1]

"OK!"

[@brianmcmahon7711]

C-Motion was a revelation to me. I will try to send the my pose morph file, but I am rural and moving large files is difficult. That said, after watching parts 1 and 2, perhaps I should change from pose morph to constraints. That may be my problem. Thanks.

[@Joeherman]

Hi Brian, Thanks, I'm glad you like CMotion. If I am right about the kinds of things you are working on (mechanical locomotion) it might be a really useful tool. Constraints are definitely important for this kind of thing.

[@brianmcmahon7711]

Excellent once again. Loved the mistakes turned to learning moments. I have used the PoseMorph to move mechanical things like the pantograph scissor-mechanism of an old trolley car. They work great when stationary, but they "explode" into an unrecoverable mess If I move the pantograph/car in space. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Could you explain what in Pt.4?

[@Joeherman]

Thank you! Yes, mistakes = learning opportunities, thanks for pointing that out. Not sure what the exact problem you're having with the posemorphs. If you send a file where it is happening, I can look into it and mention it. They shouldn't explode like that. Sounds like your making something interesting.

[@DigitalDave]

Hey guys, is the project file link compromised? Upon clicking it says the URL has been blocked by Bitly's systems as potentially harmful.

[@chhn6532]

Help , Project Files Link was blocked by bitly D:

[@maximkarpov5123]

The reason of error with Pose Morph on 17th minute is adding/deleting new Vertices to Mesh. Its forbidden to do it with Pose Morph tag, all poses stop working immediately

[@jeromerenard1574]

Hey i cannot download the projects files for no reasons. i get a window that stopped me to get them. Thanks for the good lesson !

[@Joeherman]

You're welcome! I can see why that would be a problem and I will alert the file distribution department tomorrow. Thank you for your report.

[@jeromerenard1574]

@@Joeherman i still cannot upload the files unfortunaly :/

[@joshchilders1]

This tut showed me how to rig and then 2024.4 came out now the weight painting has totally changed and I don’t know how to use the new brushes can someone help me understand what changed? Smooth add etc simply doesn’t work like it use to. They added some brush types so clearly things changed also pose morph no longer works what happened!?

[@JO_Artificial]

Problem I'm facing is that my bird is not changing position even when I draw a path and drop it in Cmotion

[@TimesNewRoman14Pt]

Does someone know, how I change the time when the Cmotion starts ? by default its starts with the first frame and I really don't find the option to change that. Thank you

[@polystormstudio]

Bitly is blocking the download of project files. Any way to post the original URL?

[@mohammadrezaeskandari362]

Hi, How can we set key frame for C-Motion options like Stride, Direction and others?

[@Joeherman]

Hello. Change the Mode from Interpolated to Adaptive in CMotion.

[@ssjenforcer191191191]

I believe you CAN make the bird Align to spline path like you tried but you accidentally made the bird a child of the bird's own eye. So that's why it wasn't working.

[@Joeherman]

Really? I'll have to go check that.