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I have problem.. i connected my arms to a bone at the neck But when i move the arms, the connector bone gets dislocated Whats up with that? ...

How to transfer exact camera position from one xsi scene to another? Thanks ...

How do i get static particles to interact with deflection fields? ...

I need a little help with character studio. I have a motion of a karate but i made a new layer and with auto key rotate the bip bone to change the postion. The biped rotates very well but the move d ...

So I finished my first model.. now its at its lowest poly level How do I proceed with rigging? I was going to uvmap this or should I now go ahead and rig this? ...

Hey guys If I rig my lowpoly version of my model I should be able to Bind that to the high poly mesh? Then just animate/rig the lowpoly right ...

How do I remove groupings? ...

Guys can someone please tell me How to move rotate scale in xsi I mean shortcuts ...

Can i make particles follow a path without using surface flow? ...

I have a character with a tank on his back and a hose that leads from the tank to his hand, and he's going to be moving it around spraying things, how do i rig the hose to bend and move between the ...

Where i could locate a tutorial for Pflow's object simulation with particles? Ultimately I want to have an object created as sparks burn over the surface.. ...

Whats the best way to do a kite & string? ...

Guys, can I model an object and then later on animate it or is there a special case for modelling objects that are going to be animated? ...

Is there a way to transfer the IK animation into FK.. and then tweak the FK.. My idea is to sketch quickly the animation with IK then transform it to FK and create all the follow through and wip act ...

I'm trying to animate the hand of a character with IK. And the hand should often be in a stretched pose.. How do I overcome the elbow snapping problem? ...

Hi! Can anyone tell me how i can export an animation from max8, and allow some one useing max7 to load it up and view it?? ...

Hey There! Anyone knows much about max's native hair/fur rendering? ( aka shave n' a haircut ) Was tryin to recreate a brush ( like a fat paintbrush with stiff bristles ) brushing on rubber cement ...

Hey there! Anyone knows how i can duplicate frames of animation from a high poly character to its lower poly version? ...

What is a dependency loop? ...

I've got a reactor/physics question, i'm setting up a rope with a ball attached , and the other end of the rope is attached to a overhanging bar, I'm using the rope modifier i can constrain one end ...

Hi. Is anyone here decent with particle effects? I'm trying to make slow smoke-like motion effect consisting of tiny lights.. Any idea how to do this? Or a better description might be a slow smoke-l ...

How do you go about lipsyncing without plugins? ...

I'm making a house of lego bricks, and the cracks between the bricks are not visible. I tried to make it piece by piece.. but still the cracks are not visible.. any ideas? ...

scenario: I have a walking guy, animated. now I have an object - editable mesh, that I want him to have in one of his hands how do I do this? I don't want to make the object part of the same mesh ...

I added a visibility key to an event of particle flow, why isn't it in the trackview? ...

How can i make particles in all vertex to any object? with object position it put particles randomly with particle flow how can i make each vertex has 1 particle ...

Anyone know how you would make the Mixer (with the biped) loop your .bip files and not start over from zero ? ...

Is there a way to free translation channel so its zero. I'm trying to export from 3dsmax(3ds format) to maya. When I import everything is set to zero. ...

How if only i could figure out this dynamics issue with hair/fur plugin, its collision detection on the collision object is detecting the collision a good distance away from the actual contact surfac ...

Patchgrids the way to go for cloth simulations? ...

What would be a good way to simulate something going through a tube where the object is bigger then the tube, so the tube extends a bit? ...

I can never get a god damned smooth camera motion with splines always twitching at the vertices. Any ideas why? ...

okay why can't I set weights in the attribute spreadsheet this is pissing me off to no end ...

how do i make an object dissapear after a certain frame do I just translate it off the area in a next frame? or is there a cleaner way of doing it know what I mean? :) ...

If i want to script pSphere1 so it at frame 21 has the translation values of pCube1 at frame 2... how could that look? i want to automate the animation of several objects and all should be timeshift ...

hi
does anyone have any ideas on how to move eg particleShape1.id[1] to eg 10 in Y? ...

Please help, I need to animate a ponytale... And I can't find anything similar to 3ds MAX splineIK in xsi? Thanks. ...

Did you try reading the manual?
Quote:1. Select an object (animated or not) and apply rigid body as either active or passive by choosing Create > Rigid Body > Active Rigid Body or Passive ...

Just use the DopeSheet it's made for this kind of things. ...

Just do the Set envelopes again with you mesh selected and then pick all the bones you wish to add. ...

Hey Fiery!
To reverse the animation for the entire scene
choose Animation > Sequence Animation > All scene in the animation panel in the bottom.
Make the scale -1 .
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This topic is strictly for Motion Builder animation resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on animating in Motion Builder are welcome here. ...

This topic is strictly for Maya animation resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on animating in Maya are welcome here. ...

This topic is strictly for Cinema 4D animation resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on animating in Cinema 4D are welcome here. ...

This topic is strictly for 3ds Max animation resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on animating in 3ds Max are welcome here. ...

This topic is strictly for Softimage XSI animation resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on animating in xsi are welcome here. ...

How to rig a face like in "Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right" by Jason Osipa book?
Especially I'm interestend in the controls. ...

1. This is a forum for 3D animation topics only. All modeling, texturing and rendering questions should be asked in forums allocated specially for this topics.
2. Before asking any questions us ...

Are there any general rules one should follow when creating morph targets for facial animation? Thank you? ...

How to simulate muscles under skin? Is it possible to do it in standard software like Max and Maya? Or do I need a special muscle system plugin to do this? Thank you. ...