I made a Gorget and I want to make the chain posable. I already made an hierarchy of the seperate rings (see pic) and loaded this into POSER. If I open the jointeditor I have only one center of rotation for each of the rings ... in my mind that's one center to short. I want to have it rotatable on either upper or lower part of the ring, so I can pose it smoothly around the neck of a POSER-figure.

My question is therefore, what is the thinking-error I am making about rotations. And what would be the best way to make a posable chain.

• ARME -

Personally, I would work within this issue. Objects can only have one center, but of course it doesn't have to actually be in the center. Move the center of rotation up to the upper edge of each ring. THis way when you rotate it along that axis it swings front to back as seen in this image.

I would make the things connecting the rings as separate parts so you get one more center of rotation for every ring.or better one for the ring and one for the connecting thing, and that way it should work fine.

I would make add IK to the prop. Then you could grab either end and pose it properly.
Joat Mon

theres a posable chain tutorial at: www.posertech.com luck BT

Thanks everyone for the fast replies. I adjusted the connectingrings (made them smaller so they have more rotationspace) and applied limits and an IKchain to the chain. It seems to work now.

BT thanks for the tutorial, yours together with Sharen's (SAMS3D), was my kick-off into posable props a week ago.

• ARME -

hehe, i learned it by those tutorials to,both are great!!