Tutorial: Spring Rig (1/3)

In this short tutorial i will show you one way to easily rig wires, antennas, capes, hair and much more.

[@9krausec]

Only a minute in and I can already tell this is one of the best tutorials ever... *chuckles "cactuses".. What? Bahaha. Nice tutorial.

[@mikexhotmail]

can be explained in 1 mins, still thank you very very much

[@negicless]

Man, your tut really helped me thx !

[@julioricardo3111]

Nice work!!!!

[@terrablader]

great tutorial thanks.

[@MrGawn]

its part of my MG Tools set. you can dl it in some of my tutorials. its free and all. i show you how to do it in the 3rd video of this series i think.

[@TinyWhorse]

Nice tutorial, but a bit to high for my poor animating skills ^^ Do you animate weapons for games too?

[@Viscte]

lo. You talk cool. I would use you as a voice actor in one of my movies.

[@9krausec]

What are you using to get your quad menus to pop up all fancy like? Intriguing...

[@Gennadiy3]

спасибо)

[@Handelo]

Cool tutorial, but does this work on Biped as well? Theoretically it should, but it would require the LookAt constraint, and whenever I assign it to look at an object with a spring controller that's linked to the biped's hierarchy, Max crashes on me -.- Works fine with regular bones, so do you know any Biped alternatives?

[@AsteroidInc]

would this same rig work on antenna that are straight instead of curved? because every time i use the spline ik solver, the middle bones move but the tip doesnt droop down

[@DreamCastrsDuel]

what version of max is this? How do I create helpers? Box? Tripod? Set what for 10?

[@snakemasterthorno]

Hi there. I like your tutorial a lot and even it has been a while back since you placed it here, i hope you still can help me out. I did this technique on a similar project and all goes well up to the part when i have to link the base point helper to the head. After i linked it to its new parent, the bones start to fly all over my screen as soon as the head starts to move around. Now usually i don't mind having a few bones flying around as long as they belong to my ex-wife, but in this case it would be nice if they would stick to the object. Do you have any suggestion how i can solve this problem. It would be really great if you can help me out here. Thanks.

[@MrGawn]

@DreamCastrsDuel 2010

[@doomsdaytuther5095]

I got the impression you were going to show us how to make this rig. Instead I find your are doing noob stuff like how to rotate and move in 3ds Max. That is stuff most people already know m8.

[@MrGawn]

did you watch all 3 videos or did you just watch this first video and give up?

[@GoatOfTheWoods]

good tutorial man, and i've watched all 3. Used this for some pauldrons jumping on a character