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Spline IK

by 3D Artisto · in Artist Corner · 09/04/2003 (6:09 am) · 4 replies

Is it possible to use Spline IK in MAX5 to animate bones and export the animation to .dsq?
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Associate Logan Foster
perPixel Studios
#1
09/04/2003 (7:01 am)
Yes it should be able to do this without problem. The exporter will see the animation transforms on the bones and dump that position out to the DSQ file.

Logan

3D Artisto
#2
09/06/2003 (2:37 am)
I had a problem... It is more a max5 problem I think...
When I link the root bone, with applied spline IK, to anything it rotates in a strange way.
I think it's a bug or the spline IK is not supposed to be used in this way?
Has anyone encountered this problem?

Torque Owner Rex
BrokeAss Games
#3
09/17/2003 (11:45 am)
I don't think you should ever animate the Biped01 Root bone...could be wrong, I might be wrong, but that don't sound right...

3D Artisto
#4
09/18/2003 (2:43 am)
Rex, I'm sorry..
I'm not talking about Biped.
I'm talking about max5 bones in general.
When I apply a Spline IK to a bone hierarchy, then I link that hierarchy to another bone. It rotates in a strange way so that the bones controled by Spline IK don't match the spline any more.