Rigging CJ / Peds / Chars Tips?

04 Mai 2021, 12:39

I suck at rigging - I'm excellent at fucking peds / cj / chars' rig up. I'd like to suck at forming bad rigs - any tips?
I only know the basics(?) of rigging. Junior mentioned something about "KI"(?).
There's this link I'm aware of someone posted:

https://trello.com/c/08pb4zU9/13-maxscripts

I haven't looked at some of these scripts yet.

Any links, videos, tips, etc to become excellent at rigging?

I always try to avoid modding cj/peds/chars cuz the rigging's a nightmare (because I don't know it enough).

Added after 6 minutes 55 seconds:
edit:

It's "IK Solvers" for 3ds max, not "KI".

This mod used IK solvers:
https://www.mixmods.com.br/2018/06/meta ... ising.html

04 Mai 2021, 18:25

there is a method that I discovered just testing and it worked, detach the mesh of your model, edit whatever is necessary, delete the original mesh from the editable mesh and attach the edited mesh, it looks stupid but it worked here ..

28 Jun 2021, 20:41

I discovered last week that you can actually move the bones of the skin where you want to put the new model (and usually I take an already made skin made by other modders that has the same proportions, call me a cheater but at this point I'm desperate to put the damn thing on the game without so much hassling of adjusting the envelopes).

The problem I had was that the envelopes weren't moving with the armature and the geometry, but in KAMS scripts there's an option called Envelopes Helper, where I can select a bone that has no influence on the model and choose the option "Set Envelopes to 0" (I think it was called like that). And I know, KAMS is outdated, but it has the option of giving normal shadows to the model (haven't found how to implement this on the new KAMS scripts, and haven't tested the .dff imp/exporter)

Now, for the two problematic zones of the skins, the thighs and the clavicles, I take for reference cutscene skins (like Sweet), and even with that I don't get magnificent results.

25 Jul 2021, 19:43

Try IKMax script if you haven't. It auto rigs nicely.

26 Jul 2021, 18:55

Just played with IKMAX more. It seemed ok. IKMAX creates new skin weight based on gizmos adjusted by IKMAX and you.

You just need Skin Wrap modifier to transfer the skin weight created by IKMAX to a ped for GTA SA (that contains different bones than IKMAX's), and tweak from there.

I don't know if IKMAX is better or if just transferring (copying/pasting) skin weight from original ped dff to new model and tweaking from there is better.

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