gddesign opened this issue on Sep 02, 2003 ยท 3 posts
ockham posted Tue, 02 September 2003 at 10:44 AM
Try this: 1. Use the Walk designer to move the waiter. 2. Independently, move the tray itself so that it stays relatively steady in front of the waiter. (Just move it along the path, setting only a few actual frames and letting the spline smooth it out.) 3. Turn off IK on the relevant arm. 4. Go to frame 1, pose the arm and hand to hold the tray. 5. Clear all the keyframes (which were supplied by the WD) for the entire arm. In the keyframe graph, draw a rectangle around all the arm parts, and extend it through all the frames you want to clear. Hit the Minus button in upper right, then close the keyframe graph. 6. Turn on IK for the arm. 7. Parent the hand to the tray. (Tray is parent, hand is child.) The hand and arm will now bend appropriately to keep the tray in place. 8. Make fine adjustments in the tray so that it bounces just a bit.