IK for a "Swing Head" Problems Help

[zapper1998]

IK for a "Swing Head" Problems, getting the 3 axis's, of the swing head to work right.

I am having difficuties getting the Picker below the swing head, to act like a weight..

What I am trying to do is set up the IK so when I turn the Unit and raise the Unit's Arms the Picker will stay Level.. or dangle.. I have the Polk plugins and taft, but i just can't seem to get the rigging right

Here is a pic of the Scene shot..92568

And a pic of the swing head..Swivel unit ...92569

It has 3 swing axises

Pic with Picker on top of ties...92570

The Picker Rotates 210 degrees under the swivel head, and the swivel head pitches on the top and bottom pin and middle pin rotates on the bank axis..

92571

the preveiw from the perspective viewport..92573


Michael

[RebelHill]

Just take the picker, put a bone in it, weight mapped, etc... and point the bone to a target null... send the null a kilometer or 2 down on the Y axis, and the bone'll appear to be always pointing straight down... or u can set a goal item (outside of the heirarchy) for the bone and use match goal orientation, to get a controllable space reference outside the heirarchy.

[zapper1998]

ok..

I will try that..

thank you ..

[zapper1998]

here is the swing head..

object 92576

and the picker 92577


It seems, I can not get it to work, arrggghhh

[RebelHill]

Ta-da...

[zapper1998]

o m g ...

Thank you ....

I was twisting my brain off trying to do it ...

I definitely learned something today ....

Thank you again so much.. :) ...