WEBVTT 00:00.180 --> 00:07.080 Now that we have the limbs redrawn, let's create the IC handles that we have learned about in previous 00:07.080 --> 00:07.520 lesson. 00:07.860 --> 00:10.730 So let's go over here to the IC handle tool. 00:10.740 --> 00:14.610 We can also get it from skeleton crate I can handle. 00:15.780 --> 00:22.110 And we want to click the first joint and then the second joint that are going to be the two endpoints, 00:22.110 --> 00:24.930 basically, so we can ignore the elbow here in this case. 00:25.500 --> 00:30.450 And once we do that, you can see and I can handle is created in the outliner and let's just rename 00:30.450 --> 00:32.280 that so that we can keep track of it. 00:42.420 --> 00:48.330 So now I think I can handle selected we can actually manipulate these joints pretty quickly and it's 00:48.330 --> 00:53.220 pretty cool, except for the fact that, you know, there's no rotation here because the rotation is 00:53.220 --> 00:54.260 not hooked up to anything. 00:54.630 --> 00:56.900 And we also don't have any curves to control this. 00:56.910 --> 00:59.670 So we need to create those in a later lesson. 01:00.140 --> 01:02.610 Well, let's move on and do the same thing for the rest of these limbs. 01:02.640 --> 01:03.150 Real quick. 01:09.610 --> 01:15.820 Don't see what happens when I use the IC handle and I get close to the shoulder here, you can see that 01:15.820 --> 01:20.650 it's maintaining its relationship up until the point that I get pretty close to the shoulder and it 01:20.650 --> 01:22.350 doesn't know which way to point the elbow. 01:22.690 --> 01:24.520 So that's why we need pull vectors. 01:24.790 --> 01:26.860 So let's create a pull vector now for the limbs. 01:27.910 --> 01:29.320 Let's use curves. 01:29.530 --> 01:30.730 You can use anything you want. 01:30.730 --> 01:32.010 You could use the locator. 01:32.050 --> 01:33.430 You can also use curves. 01:33.940 --> 01:37.450 And for this case, let's draw our own. 01:37.780 --> 01:43.030 So I'm going to actually use the poly modeling cone here. 01:43.030 --> 01:51.670 I'm I click that and I'm just going to reduce down the number of subdivisions so that it is more angular 01:51.670 --> 01:53.740 and it has it's more like a pyramid. 01:55.180 --> 01:57.340 So that created I'm going to slow it out. 01:57.730 --> 02:01.750 So that's all we can see and maybe flatten it down just a little bit. 02:03.030 --> 02:07.750 Now I'm going to select the Curves epi curve tool and I'm going to go to the tool settings and make 02:07.750 --> 02:13.300 sure that it's set to linear so that there are straight lines and I'm going to hold down V and I'm actually 02:13.300 --> 02:16.330 just going to change the background so we can see the gray shaded here a little better. 02:16.720 --> 02:24.460 Mohle down V and click in different locations of this and it's not showing up because we had it soloed 02:24.460 --> 02:25.450 some on some of that. 02:25.450 --> 02:26.980 So you can actually see it being created. 02:27.340 --> 02:31.930 I know it's being created because I've done this before, but it's just good to see because on this 02:31.930 --> 02:39.020 too we need to kind of maybe backtrack a little bit and go over different parts of the model a couple 02:39.020 --> 02:41.590 of different times to make sure that we cover all of these edges. 02:41.980 --> 02:45.370 So I just want to make sure that I'm not going on any diagonals as well. 02:45.850 --> 02:48.820 So I'm just going to go through this and create this curve. 02:52.560 --> 02:57.930 I'm going to enter now that that's done and I can delete the polygon now we're left with this kind of 02:57.930 --> 03:04.380 curve that is one solid piece and we can use for all of our pull vectors. 03:04.710 --> 03:09.180 And a pull vector is basically going to be a constraint that tells that I can't handle which way to 03:09.180 --> 03:09.520 point. 03:09.990 --> 03:13.760 So let's rotate this forward to say kind of like an arrow. 03:13.770 --> 03:15.450 This is the direction to be pointing from. 03:19.270 --> 03:26.170 And just for fun, I'm going to move the pivot point to the tip of this small hole down DSV and middle 03:26.170 --> 03:34.150 mouse tracks, snap that and I'm going to hide the polygons here so we can just get the skeleton and 03:34.150 --> 03:37.570 I'm going to rename this curve tool left. 03:40.250 --> 03:47.750 Arm Peevey Khan, that means left arm pull vector control. 03:48.170 --> 03:54.560 OK, so I'm going to snap this holding down V to the elbow, then I'm just going to drag this back a 03:54.560 --> 03:55.880 certain distance maybe. 03:56.450 --> 04:00.090 Yeah, 20, something like that. 04:00.950 --> 04:02.770 Now I'm going to zero this out. 04:02.780 --> 04:07.160 This is a very important step because we want this to be the zero worldspace. 04:07.160 --> 04:10.910 We don't want it to have any other values because when we zero this out, we want it to get back to 04:10.910 --> 04:11.650 the same point. 04:12.110 --> 04:16.120 So we need to go to modify Free's transformation's and click that. 04:16.130 --> 04:18.340 Now we have all these nice zeroed out things. 04:18.590 --> 04:23.810 So if we move it over here and we click and drag there and type in zero, it'll get back to where we 04:23.810 --> 04:25.480 want it to be cool. 04:25.490 --> 04:32.780 So lets with the selected select the IRC handle and then let's go to constrain pull vector and click 04:32.780 --> 04:33.090 that. 04:34.130 --> 04:42.110 Now you can see that the pull vector actually twisted the arm just a little bit, and that happens because 04:42.110 --> 04:45.530 we don't have it exactly in line with where this needs to be. 04:45.530 --> 04:52.610 So we can actually just leave this at the elbow because we know for sure it's going to not rotate if 04:52.610 --> 04:55.520 it's lined up with the exact kind of middle there. 04:55.820 --> 04:58.960 So let's try that one more time with a pull vector left there. 04:59.300 --> 05:01.700 So we'll go to constrain and pull vector. 05:02.250 --> 05:04.850 And now you can see that the armed and flip or anything like that. 05:05.360 --> 05:10.520 So we can leave that there and then now hit zero and it'll rotate a little bit. 05:10.520 --> 05:11.290 But that's OK. 05:11.510 --> 05:18.740 So let's just leave that at the front before while we're still getting everything lined up basically 05:18.740 --> 05:21.620 for the skinning process. 05:21.830 --> 05:25.310 So we'll move this back when we're done scanning the geometry to the joints. 05:25.970 --> 05:30.320 Also now now that we have this, let's just demonstrate what it's actually doing. 05:30.590 --> 05:37.160 So when I use this and I get the elbow in here or really anywhere, if I just have the elbow bent a 05:37.160 --> 05:40.250 little bit, it's going to point in the direction of this pull vector. 05:40.520 --> 05:42.980 So it's a great way to control what's happening with the elbow. 05:43.860 --> 05:44.180 Cool. 05:44.850 --> 05:45.590 OK, cool. 05:46.070 --> 05:50.210 So let's grab this and duplicate it out and do this for the rest of the joints. 05:50.900 --> 05:57.770 And I just want to say real quick too, I'm going to zero this out only in the Z direction, so I don't 05:57.770 --> 05:59.150 want to go back to where it's going. 05:59.150 --> 06:00.830 I just want to go back to Z. 06:01.100 --> 06:06.410 I'm going to freeze transformation's from here and then I'm going to snap it back to the elbow, as 06:06.410 --> 06:12.050 we did before, so that we know that, you know, it's going to go back when we when we zeroed out later. 06:12.350 --> 06:16.010 So I'm going to shift like this and go through that and I'm gonna do the same thing for the knees. 06:17.760 --> 06:22.860 And I'll see in the next lesson where we will continue creating the controls for these icky handles. 06:22.890 --> 06:23.520 Thanks for watching.