Had another idea, that's probably rubbish.
I added motion trails to my hands, feet and hips. Then adding a pull down attribute and creating driven keys, I added an 'on/off' switch in the channel window. And then made it non keyable.

Sure it will only work in 2012, but hey. I find it usefull.

Okay
Here's another one,
I don't know what would have to be done. But I always found it usefull with the low poly puppet rigs, when you were able to hide the arms and/or head, and torso, so you could make sure the hips were miving right, then work your way up.

cool cool, cheers for the info. Look forward to it.

You mean that the rig is in the tpose until you scrub the timeline? You're using Maya 2012 by any chance? And you were using an ATI if I remember correctly? I had such problems with ATI cards before, they tend to not update the mesh in the viewport until they have an animation and get scrubbed in the timeline, I've tried lots of workarounds but nothing helped yet.
If you're using Maya 2012, you could try and upgrade to service pack 1 (freely downloadable from the autodesk site) it could be something similar to what Kibi mentioned in post #1912... You can check that if you open the scene and before you do anything else you execute this: Menu->Modify->Evaluate Nodes->Evaluate All. If that makes the Mesh move into its animated position, it's most likely that bug, I'd say.

Heya, Playing with the new setup, the left hand shape control helper moves independently of the wrist helper, and has keyable attributes for translate and rotate.

Also Eyebrows and mustache are not in the do not touch layer.

Last edited by Ohjin (01-06-2012 6:53 pm)

Hi all!
I released yet another version, this time with some neat new features, like changeable eye color, skin color, and some new body shapes for you to play with

Since I don't have vray, I didn't change anything there. I guessed that if anybody went as far as getting Vray for Maya, I guess they wont use the standard shader anyways

Have fun!

Cheers!

Wolfi

Im starting a dial piece with this, great rig. I have one question/request.
When  the eyebrow goes down ( angry expression ) the inner eyebrow geo pulls away from the skin. Could this be tweaked? Also the eye lids, can a rotation control be made on the lids, so you can shape them a bit more?
Sorry to be picking, this rig is wonderful and with these minor tweaks we could animate more sophisticated dialoge.
Great work guys. I hope my thoughts are welcomed on this.
Andy

Last edited by murraymints (01-10-2012 5:33 pm)

Hey Wolfor,
thanks a lot for your response, Ill try that now. Yep, the eyebrow inner edge pulls away still, on smooth.
Im really picking at this, the whole thing looks great. A very valuable resorce for us animators that can`t rig or model!

hi!
Thanks a lot, good to hear that I'll put the eyebrows on the bugreport, I'm not sure when I have time to change that, sorry

OneArm wrote:

Hi.
I am having a problem with the eleven rigs arm controls for IK if I move one of the controls nothing happens the arm stays in place and the controls move fine. I hope this is something simply to fix. Thank you for your time. This is happen once I open the rig straight out.

Hi one Arm. (I hope this isn't true, haha... sorry bad joke) My mistake, I put a readme file in the rig zip file but forgot at the last update. Please read the bugtracker on the elevenrigblog. Thanks.

Edit: I placed the readme file back into the download file

It's probably the same thing with the NormanGUI: I'm just gonna make a modular GUI system similar to abxPicker so it can be applied to any character, rather than making separate GUI's from scratch. I'm also making a GUI for the iAnimate characters, so between my actual animation assignments and that GUI, I'm pretty swamped. That and the fact that I hate MEL for many, many reasons, and I've basically converted to using Python exclusively, it could be tricky to even update it. And let's not forget that everyone seemed to lose interest in it a long time ago. So basically I have no incentive to touch it.

Buuut, I will see if I can go through and at least clean up some bugs or whatever

Last edited by Camaro (01-11-2012 9:53 pm)

That bug happens with or without the GUI, unfortunately. I remember mentioning that several pages back to you, but I forgot what you said.

And yes, I'm excited about the iA GUI and modular GUI I have going. Should take quite awhile though, but it'll be worth it, so I don't have to keep making GUI's from scratch

Both. And my intention is that it's a lot more intuitive than abxPicker (fun fact: me and Adam Burke have the same first name and same initials).

Last edited by Camaro (01-12-2012 5:25 pm)