WEBVTT 00:00.180 --> 00:05.610 In this lesson, we're going to add a very important piece to this simple rig that will allow us to 00:05.610 --> 00:08.480 move the pivot around when we're going to be animating it. 00:08.850 --> 00:15.690 So let's close the constraint menu here and let's add more one more control here. 00:16.140 --> 00:18.990 And before we do that, well, it's also add a group. 00:19.010 --> 00:23.640 When I rig, I like to add empty groups above the controls. 00:24.060 --> 00:29.550 And that just means that that will be a place for us to add constraints, because if we look at the 00:29.550 --> 00:34.500 hat and we add that straight in the last lesson, look at the channel box. 00:34.740 --> 00:37.020 We have these blue dots here. 00:37.020 --> 00:37.410 Right? 00:37.800 --> 00:41.990 So that basically means there's a constraint on these channels. 00:42.300 --> 00:49.500 So if we tried to animate this, it will add a blend thing and it'll it'll be a little complicated and 00:49.500 --> 00:51.290 it's not very clean way to animate. 00:51.720 --> 00:57.090 So that's why we wouldn't want to have the hat be where the constraint is happening. 00:57.330 --> 01:01.050 So let's delete that constraint from the outliner. 01:01.530 --> 01:12.000 Let's group the hat and call this hat G.O. and let's also create a group for the control. 01:12.840 --> 01:16.010 The control itself might need to be constrained later to like the head. 01:16.320 --> 01:19.700 So we want to have an empty group above the control as well. 01:20.160 --> 01:25.320 So we'll say hat control group. 01:28.140 --> 01:32.550 So now we can make this parent constrain to the hat control. 01:32.880 --> 01:35.700 But before I do that, I want to show you one more thing about the parent constraint. 01:35.940 --> 01:44.640 So let's say the let's say the controls over here and we want to snap and it's rotated and it's doing 01:44.640 --> 01:51.540 all these things and we want to snap the hat over here to the control and have it mimic exactly the 01:51.540 --> 01:53.010 position and pose that's in. 01:53.340 --> 01:57.990 Let's open up the options of the parent constrained menu and let's take a look at it. 01:58.620 --> 02:07.140 Currently, we do not have the maintain offset on and because they were both at WorldSpace, their pivot 02:07.140 --> 02:08.400 were both at zero zero. 02:08.400 --> 02:09.330 It didn't really matter. 02:09.570 --> 02:15.990 But now that this control is not in the same place as the pivot of this one, let's see what happens 02:15.990 --> 02:16.980 when we constrain them. 02:17.310 --> 02:20.570 So I'll choose the parent and then the child and then I'll hit apply. 02:21.420 --> 02:25.350 Now you can see it actually snaps the object over to the control itself. 02:26.010 --> 02:26.670 That's pretty cool. 02:27.960 --> 02:34.320 So if we wanted to, let's say, have this pivot out here and we wanted this had to rotate from this 02:34.320 --> 02:36.060 pivot, then we could do that. 02:36.390 --> 02:38.500 But we just need to turn on maintain offset. 02:38.820 --> 02:43.740 So now the parents selected and then the child we had apply and it doesn't jump over. 02:43.950 --> 02:44.370 Right. 02:44.820 --> 02:49.620 But now we have this pivot out here and it maintains that offset. 02:49.620 --> 02:54.660 And that's what that means, maintain offset, because these pivots are offset from one another so we 02:54.660 --> 02:56.760 can choose to maintain that or not. 02:57.360 --> 03:01.980 So I'm just gonna undo this to get these back together and the world origin space here. 03:03.720 --> 03:11.160 And I'm also going to create another hack control and just follow with me here so that you'll understand 03:11.160 --> 03:20.490 why when it's like this and I'm going to duplicate it and I'm going to bring it in and up just so that 03:20.490 --> 03:22.740 we can kind of see that there's two different controls here. 03:23.050 --> 03:23.460 OK. 03:26.200 --> 03:34.060 And I'm actually going to put the pivot back down to the WorldSpace, you can see up here now it's pivoting 03:34.060 --> 03:36.640 from up here and maybe we want that. 03:36.640 --> 03:42.040 But for now, I think I would like to keep all the pivots at WorldSpace. 03:42.070 --> 03:44.560 So I'm just turning on the grid up here from these options. 03:44.890 --> 03:52.780 And then I'm going to hold on D and X and middle mouse drag right over that zero zero grid spot there. 03:53.260 --> 03:55.220 So on isolates like that. 03:55.550 --> 03:57.970 Now all of the pivots are in the same place. 03:57.970 --> 04:01.690 If you look at everything, the pivot never move there for any selecting any of those. 04:02.440 --> 04:06.850 But I don't want these hack controls to be even right. 04:07.150 --> 04:08.920 They're both children of this group. 04:09.340 --> 04:11.590 I want one to be the child of the other. 04:11.590 --> 04:12.580 And we can just pick one. 04:12.850 --> 04:18.170 Let's say let's say this is the main parent control, OK? 04:18.250 --> 04:19.240 And this is the child. 04:21.210 --> 04:22.150 And I'll just call us. 04:22.410 --> 04:24.630 Yeah, like minor control or something like that. 04:26.590 --> 04:36.520 So if I mouse drag that under here and I want to give this its own group as well, I'm just going to 04:36.520 --> 04:39.550 copy this and paste it in and call it group. 04:43.110 --> 04:52.530 So why did we do that, OK, if we use this hat now that this one will follow, right, which is what 04:52.530 --> 04:54.480 we expect because it's a child of that. 04:54.990 --> 05:01.590 So let's select the parent first, which is the main hat control here. 05:02.040 --> 05:05.260 Let's select the hat group and let's make that parent constrain. 05:06.510 --> 05:07.710 So now we move it. 05:09.000 --> 05:11.310 We have all of this together. 05:11.880 --> 05:15.450 But if we move this, nothing happens, right? 05:15.510 --> 05:16.260 Why is that? 05:16.290 --> 05:19.290 Well, because we didn't constrain anything to it. 05:19.410 --> 05:23.240 OK, so we have to think about the hierarchy of things and turn the script off. 05:23.910 --> 05:32.840 So if we want this hat to always follow the controls, we want to choose the lowest control here, OK, 05:33.150 --> 05:37.050 because we know that Lois Control is also going to follow the parent of itself. 05:37.050 --> 05:37.340 Right. 05:37.350 --> 05:38.790 The parent had control up here. 05:39.310 --> 05:40.920 So let's just see what happens when we do that. 05:40.920 --> 05:42.750 Let's select the minor control. 05:43.060 --> 05:45.690 It's like the hat geo group and constrain. 05:47.430 --> 05:50.100 So now we move the hat, the main hat control. 05:50.400 --> 05:52.380 It does move with it just like it did before. 05:52.680 --> 05:56.930 But when we select this one, watch what happens now that moves as well. 05:57.570 --> 06:03.000 Here's the big takeaway you're about to hopefully realize what this allows us to do. 06:03.120 --> 06:04.570 Now we can change the pivot. 06:04.740 --> 06:05.340 Watch this. 06:05.370 --> 06:10.830 Let's say that the character is going to pick up the hat from this side over here, OK, from the left 06:10.830 --> 06:12.420 side of our screen. 06:13.260 --> 06:14.310 Well, it's awkward. 06:14.340 --> 06:15.810 There's no pivot over here, right? 06:15.810 --> 06:17.010 All the pivots are in the center. 06:17.070 --> 06:23.940 But if we were to take this minor pivot, this minor control and move it to the center of this control, 06:25.050 --> 06:26.940 now we have a pivot over here. 06:27.240 --> 06:27.660 Right. 06:28.980 --> 06:31.620 And we can just move that to where we want that pivot to be. 06:33.510 --> 06:40.350 Check that out now we have a pivot over here and the guy could pick it up from this side, rotate it, 06:40.350 --> 06:41.310 whatever we need to do. 06:42.000 --> 06:48.750 But if we didn't create this hierarchy, we wouldn't have that ability to slide this kind of hat around 06:48.750 --> 06:50.480 within the main control. 06:50.520 --> 06:50.810 Right. 06:51.160 --> 06:52.140 That's kind of what we're doing. 06:52.690 --> 06:54.780 So I want to show you real quick one other neat thing. 06:54.780 --> 06:58.680 And this video is getting a little longer, but I really want to show you this. 06:58.680 --> 07:03.060 So if we select the control curve, right, because right now it's hard to see, especially with this 07:03.060 --> 07:07.740 blue background, we could change that by hitting me like we've learned in previous lessons. 07:08.190 --> 07:10.020 But it's still I don't like this color. 07:10.020 --> 07:10.650 It's a dark color. 07:10.650 --> 07:11.340 It's hard to see. 07:11.910 --> 07:17.430 Let's go up here to the attribute editor and let's go down here to the object display. 07:17.940 --> 07:21.570 Let's go down to drawing overrides and let's enable overrides. 07:22.020 --> 07:23.010 Scroll down. 07:23.080 --> 07:25.970 We can actually choose a different color for this curve. 07:26.430 --> 07:28.770 Let's do something brighter like that, red. 07:29.490 --> 07:34.260 And now we can also choose one for the minor control. 07:34.530 --> 07:35.460 Let's choose a different color. 07:35.460 --> 07:38.460 So it indicates that it's a minor control. 07:38.880 --> 07:39.770 Let's choose a yellow. 07:39.780 --> 07:45.240 So now we have something that's a little easier to see and control and we have done peer constraint. 07:45.240 --> 07:49.200 So we don't see the the selection highlighting of the actual geometry. 07:49.500 --> 07:53.760 And now we have this hierarchy that we can move the pivot around if we like. 07:53.880 --> 08:00.360 And we made groups for the controls themselves because we are going to need to constrain these to the 08:00.360 --> 08:01.800 character's head at some point. 08:02.040 --> 08:07.980 So we want to have these groups above the controls as well, because if you remember why we did that, 08:07.980 --> 08:11.130 you can see now these are all blued out for the geometry, the group. 08:11.880 --> 08:15.600 But because we didn't do to the geometry itself, the geometry is still clean. 08:15.900 --> 08:18.030 So we could still shift this around if we wanted. 08:18.870 --> 08:21.150 But we couldn't really do that with the hat because it's constrained. 08:21.390 --> 08:25.550 Let's just grab the hat Geo Group and try that and move it over here and see what happens. 08:25.950 --> 08:31.110 So now we moved it over here, let's say for whatever reason, we want it over there and then move that. 08:31.380 --> 08:31.800 Nope. 08:31.800 --> 08:33.600 It just snaps right back to where it was. 08:33.870 --> 08:40.620 So that's what that means when we see these constraints and these kind of blue boxes here, it means 08:40.620 --> 08:41.910 it's a no go, right. 08:42.090 --> 08:43.430 You're not going to be able to adjust this. 08:43.440 --> 08:44.250 It's constrained. 08:44.520 --> 08:50.820 And that's why we create these these groups above the stuff that can be a parent and hold that constraint 08:51.150 --> 08:58.200 so that these lower children of those groups will have empty boxes here for whatever reason. 08:58.200 --> 09:00.690 If we want to move that around, we can. 09:01.080 --> 09:03.420 And the same will be true for these controls. 09:03.720 --> 09:08.760 If this if we parent to the control to the head of the character, we wouldn't be able to adjust it 09:08.760 --> 09:12.030 on its head, say, if you like, you know, tips it to somebody or something. 09:13.140 --> 09:17.280 We want that constraint to live above it in the parent group. 09:17.790 --> 09:21.870 So definitely, you know, let that sink in. 09:21.870 --> 09:26.850 And we're going to create a more complicated rig with the character in these later lessons. 09:27.150 --> 09:32.970 But just wanted to give you that kind of prop rigging to introduce you to some concepts like constraints 09:32.970 --> 09:36.360 and grouping and hierarchies and why that's all important. 09:36.360 --> 09:40.500 And just real quickly, I will also say I will usually group these together. 09:40.740 --> 09:46.110 So then just call this all together, the hat rig so that it's just very clean and the outliner. 09:46.110 --> 09:47.340 We have one thing to look at. 09:47.490 --> 09:51.150 I'll see you the next lesson where we will look at rigging the bones character. 09:51.370 --> 09:51.990 Thanks for watching.