"hanging" rig thoughts and help

[nikfaulkner]

hi all,

does anybody have any pointers of how i could achieve this kind of rig?

its on a japanese page using the cool looking but totally indecipherable "automation tools" plugin

the 4th animation down of the 2 characters swinging

http://members2.jcom.home.ne.jp/noboyama/diary/diary200504.html

any pointers would be cool, bearing in mind i'm a bit of an idiot in the art of rigging

tia

[UnCommonGrafx]

Good luck!!

That site has been talked about for the past two years. So far, no takers on doing any kind of 'how to' on the boards. Those guys even gave us an english version yet still no takers.

My suggestion: Download the tools and try it. It works. The intricacies of how he did it, though, are somewhere on that page and unknown to many of us. Again, though, they have shared the tools and made them available.

[SplineGod]

Theres a lot of ways to do that. You could have IK on one arm and animate the rest of it with FK. Anything beyond that would require you have a pretty good understanding of rigging in general.