aodor opened this issue on Jan 20, 2004 ยท 19 posts
shadownet posted Wed, 21 January 2004 at 9:35 PM
Sounds like ockham's script did the trick. Here is a way I came up with to control multiple figures in a scene using one figure as the controller. All other figures will duplicate the movement of the controlling figure, plus you can tweak them individually if you have reason to make one or two less in sync. 1) load the figure you want to be the master figure, turn IK off (and memorize all so the legs will be right should you hit restore) 2) load second figure, turn IK off, and conform to first figure. 3) select first figure, and hide figure 4) select hip on second figure, and create magnet. 5) set scale on mag zone to say 2000% 6) Now it gets tedious, but you only have to do this one and then you can save the Magnet setup. Select magnet and then properties and assign the magnet to all body parts on the second figure (make sure you do not get the first fig by accident) 7) Once you have the magnet setup, save it to the Prop library - I suggest using subsets and clicking all three parts to make sure it saves right. 8) Show all figure 9) Select magnet and move on xtran to seperate figures 10) Select first figure and apply pose. 11) Second figure should mirror pose. 12) Now, here is another trick. On second figure, turn IK on for hands and feet - not absolutely necessary, but it makes it easier to pose this one different from first when desired. Remember to memorize figure. 13) Repeat with as many figures as desired, by loading new figure and conforming to first figure, (or if you want to get experimental to one of the conforming figures) and then apply magnet preset to that figure. Use magnet to position in scene as desired.