I'm referencing it, yes.  Nothing's on an external drive, and the scene file is about 2.5MB.  It takes about 10-15 minutes to open, too.  I read that something with light linking is (or was) a problem with slowing down Maya scenes, but I didn't find anything involving lights or light linking in the Outliner.  No idea what the problem could be!

I have the same problem with the face and hands rendering black. I looked at the shaders and googled a bit to try to find the solution, but didn't. I'm sure it's super easy

Ah, yes, thanks wolfor. I realized I was just looking at the wrong shaders

Yea, I had this happen to me on my take animation with the malcolm rig too. I tried virtually everything, deleting unnecessary animation curves, using scene cleanup, you name it, I've tried it. Last thing that worked for me was was to export all the animation curves into a fresh new scene with the rig.
For that, there is a neat script that can export/import all animation curves. I believe it's called DKanim: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downl … /dkanim--3
hope this helps you a bit
When I get home, I'll try to see if I can reproduce that error the way you described it.

Yea that seems to look promising as well, did you try to import/export the animation in order to get the scene load in a normal time again? Did it work?

Hi all!
I finally managed to get rid of all (well, at least most of) the bugs, and am able to call this the version 1.0. Iwanted to add some more customizations, but, alas, didn't have the time for it But that will come, hopefully in a very short time

What I did address were many bugs, but also some things on the wishlist, like:
-clenchable jaw muscles
-adams apple incl. chin swell
-nose flare
-twist attributes for the IK limbs incl. toggleable polevectors
-toggleable volume preservation for the torso and for the limbs
-eye deformer
-cranked up the facial shapes, so you can go even more extreme
-added inflatable lips, please be aware that this option may produce some undesired shapes together with the roll in/out of the lips. Still working on that
-...

What I didn't add yet were some more customizations like fat, buff, new beards, hairstyles, etc also I didn't manage to add object space for the elbows (sorry Camaro) because of an untraceable dependency cycle and no movable hairline (yet) because this would mean some extra work modeling, too.

What I didn't modify either was the stretch on the elbow pinning, because since I have to reverse-engineer this rig (which has been made by Angelo, now rigger at iAnimate) I could only partly find out how this pinning has been done, and every attempt to modify this to work without stretching has been in vain. So, if you want to use the elbow pinning, please bear in mind, that a) this feature is still experimental and b) you need the pole vector to be turned on for this.

I've released two versions of the rig:
the plain v1.0 is just the rig, and nothing but the rig, none of the additional "history" of the rig included, and best for most animators, and an edit pack, that includes all available blendshapes, etc.

I hope you'll have fun, and if you encounter any bugs, or have any other wishes, don't hesitate to send them to me either via the bugtracker on the elevenrig blog or the 11secoundclub forum thread.

Cheers!

Wolfi (who now goes to bed very tiredly )

Last edited by wolfor (01-02-2012 10:40 am)

Cant wait to give it a go, im part way through an animation already, with varias parent constrains going on at the moment so will have to wait till next time.

I followed camero's contraint vids to setup wrist contraints to work with other objects. Is it poss to set something like this up on the rig. I know the original wrist controllers would be constrained. But people could use the new Helper controls to move the wrist. My one is just a cude volume helper, but maybe a nicer looking helper could work, and then hide the original.
I understand if you think this is a stupid idea.

Hello Wolfor,
I will soon need a little chat with you. You know I have been keen on promoting the rig on the blog to enable people to get the full maximum use out of it. This will include a basic breakdown how to set up the rig, if the textures are not loaded upon opening.

Possibly, if a clothing tutorial was made, we could produce a mini-challenge some time, asking if people wish to create a design for Eleven. These could maybe be hosted on Romain Digonnet's website? Just an idea, which doesnt need to happen immediately.

I hope to finally do something similar with the Morpheus rig too. Again, please don't expect this to happen overnight, but something I definately wish to see take place soon.

Looks to be a great rig! Cant wait to start using it! Lots of great features

Just have a bit of a problem.... sorry if this has already been asked and maybe I'm just not looking in the right place. I downloaded the version 1.0 and opened in maya 2012, everything works fine except for the IK on the left arm. The arm wont move with the controller but its fine on the right arm.

Any help to fix this much appreciated thanks!

Thanks! It worked perfectly! time to animate

Kibi wrote:

Looks to be a great rig! Cant wait to start using it! Lots of great features

Just have a bit of a problem.... sorry if this has already been asked and maybe I'm just not looking in the right place. I downloaded the version 1.0 and opened in maya 2012, everything works fine except for the IK on the left arm. The arm wont move with the controller but its fine on the right arm.

Any help to fix this much appreciated thanks!

Actually, I found that utilizing the newest Service Pack 1 for Maya 2012 gets rid of this problem, too

Hi! I'd be curious to know if this problem (with Malcolm) is appearing on Mac computers only. If you import the reference, does the problem go away?

I haven't had a test scene to look into this yet.

wolfor wrote:

Yea, I had this happen to me on my take animation with the malcolm rig too. I tried virtually everything, deleting unnecessary animation curves, using scene cleanup, you name it, I've tried it. Last thing that worked for me was was to export all the animation curves into a fresh new scene with the rig.
For that, there is a neat script that can export/import all animation curves. I believe it's called DKanim: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downl … /dkanim--3
hope this helps you a bit
When I get home, I'll try to see if I can reproduce that error the way you described it.