Quick Question about Scaling
I have a character that has an appendage that I need to scale uniformly when animating. I'm trying to avoid using blendshapes for this particular project, and wanted to see if there's a way to create a single scalable control using rapid rig? (basically an aux control that can scale the joint)
I built this smaller cube rig just as a tester example, with just a root and aux joint. As a work around, I found that I could just connect the scale attributes of the control curve and joint in the Connection Editor, but I know that's probably not the best practice and it would have to be reconnected for any rig rebuilds.
If building a scalable control isn't possible, is it possible to attach a custom joint and control to the rig itself after I've generated the rapid rig?
Thanks so much in advance for your help! 😊
If you have IK enabled on the proxy, you can set the IK Spline Inf attributes to 1. There is an attribute per chain. By default, when you fully switch to IK mode, the fk controls will no longer affect the joints and become hidden. But if you set the Blended Additive attribute to 1, then the IK controls and FK controls affect the joints in an additive way.
Also, on each IK control, the default behaviour is to inherit movement from the parent control. But if you set Local Space to 0, the IK control's movement will be only be affected by the Main control of the rig. This is so you can keep the control in a certain location even if the rest of the rig moves.
If you leave Local Space at 1, but turn off Parent Influence, the IK control will inherit movement from the module, but not of the parent IK control. This is useful if you want to freely animate every joint of a tentacle without influence from the parent control, but want the whole tentacle's movement to be relative to the body of the creature.