How to rig a piston in Maya 2016 in less than 5 minutes

[@276matto]

Thanks for tutorial Mr. Hermes. But i have a problem. I do what you do but object is turning 90 degrees when moving ant stay still. Freezed Transformation, Deleted History but nothing changed. Can you help me about this please?

[@Leprechaune]

Excellent vid! Concise and clearly explained. Great work!

[@rakshithreddy167]

Man u hv got every solution for problems in maya tq...

[@MHTutorials3D]

Pretty much :-)

[@officialPCXTV]

Woah, Constraint-ception. I didn't know that was possible :)

[@Ruyanisme]

very smart sire.

[@rosvisual2986]

thank you ! this tutorial was really helpful for me

[@Dom191292]

Hi Mike, is there a way to limit the extension of the piston rod? Ideally in a manner that allows the piston to be oriented at any angle and still maintain a max extension behaviour (i.e. not using the limit information tab under attribute editor, as this only works based on world coordinates).

[@MHTutorials3D]

Absolutely, you just need to put in limitation values on whatever axis you want to limit ( check my door and window rigging video )

[@akashmitra1294]

this is a very smart way ..........thx nicely explained

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thank you

[@KiriaHmuriy]

Thank you!

[@MHTutorials3D]

+Киря Хмурый You are welcome

[@topknot01]

Thanks a lot for this, really helped out.

[@HelroyDelano]

Wicked Tutorial! Could you Do an Extension of this for piston like rig with multiple averaging parts. So like a piston if it had a bunch of collapsing sections to it. I've tried to figure this out myself but i end up with a lot of cyclical errors.

[@MHTutorials3D]

Currently traveling but I will see what I can do

[@HelroyDelano]

Thank you very much! Take your time, its not for a pressing project or anything. I really appreciate it.

[@amaryta]

Thank you! Life saver

[@pinxelated2799]

thanks! easy to understand.

[@thepaintedginger]

Okay I’m working on a giant robot and was wondering if after to to that, could you anchor or parent the pivot point to a joint in a skeleton rig?

[@MHTutorials3D]

That can be done, yes

[@TheRafferty94]

hey @ginger did you figure this out? ik it's an old comment but I'm currently trying to do that and it breaks the aim constraint and i'm having a hard time finding resources on it EDIT** figured it out. If you want to use this method in a rig its better to add two joints facing each other with aim constraints on, then just parent the geo to the joints

[@PartigradeCannon]

Won't that cause some sort of loop?

[@AzeemAfzaly]

Thanks

[@carsonchild]

I rigged a character in Maya LT 2016, and imported the test animation on my character, but I can't seem to get rid of the test animation character that was imported. how do you delete characters from Human IK? Thanks

[@MHTutorials3D]

+Carson Child Check you outliner and make sure character and IK are no longer parented. Then delete the character

[@indianeinstein1978]

you are awesome !! i will subscribe you. thanks very much.

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thank you so much

[@fabianf.2300]

can I do that with bones?

[@MHTutorials3D]

Yes you can

[@jaspreetmaan121]

How can i add a spring like in car suspension

[@MHTutorials3D]

Use blend shapes

[@ultraki5897]

What's a piston

[@red4666]

For some reason, when this is exported into unreal it messes up.

[@MHTutorials3D]

How did you export it ?

[@thelibrarian7193]

very informative, but not the one i need right now

[@MHTutorials3D]

Thanks

[@justinnixon5823]

my aim keeps rotating