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Renaming bones in an IK chain

by Russell Fincher · in Artist Corner · 08/21/2007 (12:40 pm) · 1 replies

Using Max 8.0

I've set up a skeleton using the Torque Skeleton Generator, but I need to rename the bones in the skeleton so it will sync up with some animations I have. My problem is that when I try to rename bones, I get error after error about how the IK information now can't find the bones it needs.

I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to rigging. Can anyone tell me how to modify the IK chains and controllers so they see the renamed bones?
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    Associate Russell Fincher
    Sickhead Games
    #1
    08/21/2007 (2:25 pm)
    Well, as is usually the case, I found an answer myself after asking it. Just updating the names of the bones in the "Expressions" calculation in the error window. I had already tried that before posting here, but I guess I had entered the wrong bone names.