mcjHipBasedPin - Freeze the position of something using the parent hip/root

mCasual · July 2016

it's an animation trick i often used but i had not written a version of the script that everyone can use

here's what it does

ex: you're at frame 6 of the timeline, you select the dancer's chest node

you run the script, press the "Go" button

and bam, for the whole duration of the playrange, the hip gets animated/moved in a way that keeps the chest note exactly where it was at frame 6

mCasual · July 2016

note that this script takes care of keeping the hand, for example, at a fixed location

but re-attaching the feet to the floor is done using mcjAutoLimb and mcjKeepOrient

Ruphuss · July 2016

thank you Jacques

just tried it

and very helpful

how about a framerange to chose from ?

Mythmaker · July 2016

Thanks for another gem!

Self-pinning in space...useful to straighten spine for tipsy walk cycle...

or dangling the actor on something by the wrist, like.... at the edge of a cliff haha evil laugh!

But yeah framerange (and unpin option) would be kinda necessary I think so too?

Speaking of Autolimb...

just experimented with it (after my first encounter with horrid DS feet pinning to floor when hand-keying a simple dance-on-spot loop)

and Autolimb (I use v2015 for G3F) definitely helped a great deal! So thanks for that!

(green = before autolimb fix)

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