Comments on: Maintaining bone volume, a new constraint

By: Virgilio

Virgilio — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:43:13 +0000

Hello, Roland.
I also think this is a great addition to Blender, but I’m unable to get it to work with stretchy IK bones. I’ve tried to set this constraint both before and after the IK, when the bones have the “Stretch” property enabled. I’m using a custom build from trunk (revision 3060, from today) in Linux.
Am I doing something wrong, or is it supposed to be used in non-IK chains?
Thanks in advance.

By: 0knowledge

0knowledge — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:53:12 +0000

Hey Roland, I was wondering if you could give me the list of blender source files you had to edit to create a constraint. I was thinking about trying to add a very simple one myself so I’m sure it would save me some time if I knew what to start looking at. Thanks for any help, and thanks for the constraint!

By: Roland

Roland — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:17:45 +0000

Thanks folks. It was the complexity of doing this with the existing tools that prompted it. I hope it stands the test of time and makes a real contribution to rigging.

By: Virgilio

Virgilio — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:47:00 +0000

Yay!
Making our lives extremely easier!

This is specially great on more complex setups (ex.: IK-FK capable setups), avoiding the creation of too much extra bones.

Thanks a lot!

By: Reyn

Reyn — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:57:18 +0000

Thanks soooo much! Just what I needed for my character rigs. Now, no need for some special locks whatsoever. Thanks so much again! ^_^

-Reyn

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:40:17 +0000

This looks awesome! Maybe there should be a weight painting mode for it, so some parts can stretch more than others. That would be more difficult to implement, though.

By: spacetug

spacetug — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:37:04 +0000

no new enough builds on graphicall

By: Terry Wallwork

Terry Wallwork — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:51:23 +0000

Hi,

Awesome feature, glad it is back in 2.5. I will have to grab the most recent svn and give it a try.