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  • slarty
  • Posted: 23 April 2010 05:02 AM
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ello all ive been at this for hours now and its getting to the point where my foot is about to go through my monitor.
been following the dynamic chain vid tutorial from autodesk and its all fine i create the joint chain, i the create a curve in the right places and make it dynamic, the vid now goes to the tool setting for the spine ik handle and turns of auto create and parent curves, done that no problem. its the next bit i follow on the tut i select create spline ik tool and selct the root of my joint chain the end of it and the the ouput curve for the dynamic curve.
in the vid an ik handle is created on both my 2010 and 2011 copy of maya nothing happens at the bottom where it has te tool help it says click lmb to pick start point and thats it thats all i get, is sent round and round the same 3 correct by the vid clicks. please help this is driving me nuts.



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after selecting spline ik handle tool from menu, click on the root joint,then click on the last joint, then select the curve FROM THE OUTLINER, NOT FROM THE VIEWPORT.try this...hope it helps u…

Author: Mayachandra

Replied: 02 August 2010 09:45 PM