#DEFORMER MAYA 2016 TUTORIAL RAR#

Let’s take a second and think about this decision… We’ll see… but I think I can get away with just constraining and driving geometry. I’ve decided to not use joints because this is a machine, and mostly, machines don’t deform much, so unless I need to, I’m not going to be skinning anything.

doors, hood, and trunk should open and close (and not interpenetrate the car)įirst, I will tackle the world control.

wheels should rotate intelligently with the forward and backward motion of the car.

For the purposes of this tutorial, I’m only going to hook up a few things and leave it up to you to get creative. So, I’m going to move on after just deleting those extra transform nodes (I found 8 of them). Things even seem to be named pretty well! No extra values, main group has its pivot at the origin with the car centered on the origin, and most things look pretty symmetrical that should be. In general, this model looks pretty clean. This step may not be entirely necessary, as the geometry is being run by other controls anyway, but it helps promote a clean scene, and it helps avoid any strange problems that random values might cause in the future. You can do this for all the groups and objects until you’re satisfied there aren’t any values on the objects you don’t want. This cycles through the siblings of whatever object you have selected. I checked for any errant transformations on any of the geometry by clicking on a group or object and pressing the right arrow key repeatedly while watching the channel box. I may also have to move that group’s pivot point so things move correctly… just remember to think about the groups in the model. For example, the front_left_wheel group includes the front_left_disc and the front_left_caliper, so if I want to move the whole wheel, I’ll need to move the group.

In some cases, I may need to grab the group. Since I have a lot of grouping in my model, I’ll have to remember to pay attention to exactly what I am selecting when I hook things up. I generally leave them there as they help with organizing the parts somewhat and usually don’t cause any problems, but I’ll remember they are there in case they do cause something to not work quite right, and I’ll deal with them then. The groups that are in the model are up to you. There’s always possible history on the model, so go ahead and delete that. There’s a few empty transform nodes that can be deleted (e.g., pCube9, pCube10, etc, but also main_chassis1 and others). Remember, this tutorial is just going to show my solution… there’s always room for experimentation and creativity. Make sure there’s no extra stuff in the scene that is unnecessary, and start deciding how you want to make this thing move. Now, let’s get started… Analyze and clean up the model:Īs always, take a look around the model.

#DEFORMER MAYA 2016 TUTORIAL RAR#

rar file, post to the blog and I’ll email you a. Here’s yet another challenge for the club… a red car rig focusing on set driven keys and modified control setups.

Deformer maya 2016 tutorial