I have some rigging work in Poser to do though admittedly I'm pretty bad at it. If anyone is interested and wants to take a shot at a rigging job, please send me a PM to get the details.

What are you rigging?

John

A short purple alien guy made in Zbrush. This guy:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2130765&comment_page=2#comments

a bit too much for me I am afraid, I'm a cloth man only at the moment.

Sweet model though :)

John

Very cute, LOL!

Two questions. One, has the figure been grouped for rigging? Two, could you show us an image with Smoothed Lined Diasplay Style?

What method do you use when rigging?

I usually group the mesh in UV mapper,  then use Phi-builder to set the hierarchy and finally in Poser I adjust the joints as best as I can.  Looking at the picture, it might not be such a hard task to rig this character (nice looking character too). Unfortunately, my method will likely destroy the morphs.

if this is freebie, ya could post the obj file and let various people try to animate the chode figure.  they also need to animate the tentacles, and the knees are almost touching the hip, hence it waddles when it walks.

Quote - Very cute, LOL!

Two questions. One, has the figure been grouped for rigging? Two, could you show us an image with Smoothed Lined Diasplay Style?

It has yet to be grouped. So far I've managed to group 1 hand. I'll get an image up shortly.

Quote - if this is freebie, ya could post the obj file and let various people try to animate the chode figure.  they also need to animate the tentacles, and the knees are almost touching the hip, hence it waddles when it walks.

I'll see about getting it up as a freebie.

Quote - What method do you use when rigging?

I usually group the mesh in UV mapper,  then use Phi-builder to set the hierarchy and finally in Poser I adjust the joints as best as I can.  Looking at the picture, it might not be such a hard task to rig this character (nice looking character too). Unfortunately, my method will likely destroy the morphs.

So far I've been trying to do it all in Poser. As I said, I'm not very good at it. I'll give those programs a shot though.

Wish I could find the thread. I hate the search here. Anyway... lesbently did a rigging thread reciently for a robot character by a user here. I followed alomg and found it quite helpful. Take a look or ask lesbently if he has the link. It may help you out.

If you're trying to group a model of any complexity completely within Poser you'll be wanting some heavy prescription medication.  Seriously, do the grouping in a modeler that can write grouping info out to OBJ format.  I don't know whether Zbrush can do this but there are many other choices that allow MUCH MUCH EASIER methods of selecting and grouping polygons than Poser's halfassed tool for that.

http://www.philc.net/rigging1.php

Quote - If you're trying to group a model of any complexity completely within Poser you'll be wanting some heavy prescription medication.  Seriously, do the grouping in a modeler that can write grouping info out to OBJ format.  I don't know whether Zbrush can do this but there are many other choices that allow MUCH MUCH EASIER methods of selecting and grouping polygons than Poser's halfassed tool for that.

http://www.philc.net/rigging1.php

Thanks for the tip, and for the link!