wolfor wrote:

I have maya 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013 installed and no problems with error messages like that (*knock on wood*) but the not zeroed out position of the rig is my mistake. I just plainly forgot to set it back to 0-0-0 before saving it

What???! You forgot to do something with the rig? Shame on you ! ROFL!

Ok so perhaps this has already been answered or maybe not, but when I open the rig, no matter how much I try to customize the skin layer, I keep getting this...



Is there anyway out of this? And I notice in the advanced tutorial the rig seems to have more facial controls for micro expressions, but the one I downloaded off the site under the most recent installments of the Eleven Rig (1.2) those are not there on mine anymore...



Sorry again if this was already answered but I tried reading back til the most recent installment and haven't seen much on it. Thanks again for your time

Last edited by ccamiranda (05-14-2012 4:12 am)

Ok great, ya got it to all work out, thanks a bunch!

Hi!
If you select  the global scale control on the ground, you can set the the arm to FK by changing I think it's called Arm IK state (I think, don't have maya running atm). That way you'll have FK. The handle you've tried is a) only for the elbow pin feature and b) still experimental.
You could also watch the two tutorial videos, this has been covered there.

Cheers!

that's only the space the FK controls operate in. Setting them to chest is a good idea. But the switch is not called like this. It's called IK arm state or something similar.
The videos are linked on the 11rig blog you downloaded the rig from

Awesome! Glad you like it, and don't be shy to ask any question if any more should arise, the only dumb question is the one that hasn't been asked

I have completed the body rig for the Max 11 version.

I found after having to pick up the project again, to start from the beginning as I had learned a few things since then and I wanted to change a little of the inner mouth geo...

More to follow.



*Edit 5/19/2012

  Will the body rig completely finished now I have moved to the head. One of the things that bothered me was the lack of an eye socket. The space between the head and eye, while not noticeable from a distance, is seen in close ups. So I added some geo here. Also the lack of a definitive brow when I was working on this project last year needed a bit more love as well, so i pulled out that area slightly.



I have added a Cam_Gui for those who like to work with a side by side setup, and am now working out my facial controls again.

Last edited by katana (05-19-2012 2:21 pm)

@katana: awesome! I really appreciate this

@Sandy:
1) what do you mean by ipr? Do you mean this age old method of previewing a render? Does anybody still use this? I'm shocked.
2) this image looks to me like you didn't up the head's resolution for the render. Since the eyes are NURBS, they are, opposed to the polygonal head, being subdivided when rendered.
3) I have to test that. Gonna be back later on.

By the way, please update you Maya to the newest service pack. The older ones have known issues with the eleven rig. You can freely download this from the Autodesk website.

Last edited by wolfor (05-20-2012 11:45 am)

sandy_maith wrote:

i'm a maxer and not much known to maya..i just know how to animate inside maya.......yes i use ipr to preview as this is all i know to do that..has something changed??..pls tell me if there's a better way.
Subdivision did help but not fully...the problem is still there.. (body smooth value=1)

:-)

Yes, that's because there is a face smooth attribute as well (on the head controller). I never used ipr at all because all I render usually is fast enough so I don't need a preview. And, IPR only works with maya sofware renderer, right? Another minus for IPR. I now mostly use viewport 2.0 instead of rendering, but that one has issues with displaying the layered textures of elevens body and face. You would need to reconnect the textures accordingly.

Do those spots show up in viewport? Or just in IPR?

Hmm, too bad. I've never seen that the eyes crash through the lids in these standard positions. I have to take another look at that as soon as I've got some time for it, right now, I'm really packed up over my head with work, so this might take a while. What you can do though, is animate the crash correction attribute that is on one of the eye controllers, that scales down the eyes a bit so the eyes don't come crashing through the lids anymore.

About the spots on the body, that's because eleven's body shader is applied to polygon selections (that was not my doing ), and maya can't handle these selections if the body is smoothed. I am also looking into that, in the meantime, you might want to reconnect the shader to the body parts after you set the bodysmooth to 1.

no flipped normals as far as I can see... these are just colored polys from the shoe or pants shader.
The think that works for me is: you rightclick on the shirt's shader and execute 'select objects with this material', and grow the selection with the '<' key (or was it '>' ? I can't remember this) for one or two polygon rows. After that, you make the selection smaller by the same amount with the '>' key, rightclick on the shader and execute 'assign material to selection'. This should get rid of this problem.