WEBVTT 00:00.300 --> 00:05.460 In this lesson, we're going to take a look at creating an independent hip control if we select what 00:05.460 --> 00:10.450 is currently called the hips, bones, hips, this joint here and we try to rotate this. 00:10.470 --> 00:12.090 It's going to move the entire spine. 00:12.690 --> 00:18.360 And we want something that control the hips by itself without moving the entire body. 00:18.720 --> 00:24.780 So for us to do that, we need to split apart where the legs meet the spine and create our own hip joint 00:24.780 --> 00:25.160 in here. 00:25.560 --> 00:27.770 So want to hide the polygons for now. 00:28.170 --> 00:33.690 I'm going to go to the rigging menu here, select the joint, and I'm going to make one down here at 00:33.690 --> 00:36.630 zero zero and hold down X and click. 00:37.350 --> 00:44.580 And then I'm going to drag this up and hold down V and Vertex, snap it in the center as well. 00:45.570 --> 00:47.180 Currently it's constrained to the Y axis. 00:47.220 --> 00:51.900 I'm going to select in the middle there to make it unconstrained hold down V and middle mouse drag there. 00:52.560 --> 00:56.700 So I'm going to call this bone's hips. 00:59.110 --> 01:07.330 So now that we have this renamed to Bones Hips, let's rename this joint to Bones COAG or Center of 01:07.330 --> 01:13.950 Gravity and let's on parent the legs from that joint. 01:13.960 --> 01:19.780 So I'm going to click both of those and hit shift P, and then I'm going to select this new bones hip 01:20.050 --> 01:22.400 joint here from the outliner and hip. 01:24.700 --> 01:31.600 So now that we have that, we can see that if we were to move this bones hip joint, it will actually 01:31.600 --> 01:32.830 only control the hips. 01:33.820 --> 01:35.250 And that's what we're looking for. 01:35.950 --> 01:41.420 And now we have the spine here, which will move all of the upper body. 01:41.440 --> 01:44.710 So now we just need to connect these two pieces. 01:45.130 --> 01:47.550 And we could do that several different ways. 01:47.920 --> 01:52.780 And I'm going to do it with a parent just to keep everything nice and neat. 01:53.140 --> 01:57.740 So I'm going to select the child first and then the parent and then I'm going happy. 01:58.720 --> 02:04.300 So now we have this extra bone that lives inside of this joint and it's kind of hard to see they're 02:04.300 --> 02:06.610 connected, but they are are indeed connected. 02:07.330 --> 02:10.780 So let's create our own controls now for those. 02:11.170 --> 02:16.390 And we can do that with our own controller here and the Curves menu. 02:16.390 --> 02:21.640 I'll just create a circle here and I'll vertex snap it. 02:22.780 --> 02:27.220 And again, it's constrained in the wire, so I'll just select in the middle here to unconstrained it 02:27.220 --> 02:29.230 and hold me again and middle mouse drag. 02:30.310 --> 02:38.650 So I'm going to unhide the polygon so I can kind of see where the hips control needs to be kind of constrained 02:38.760 --> 02:47.080 to go into the control vertex option here and just turn off the joint selection here from the top so 02:47.080 --> 02:50.260 that I can select the vertices of this curve. 02:50.710 --> 02:54.940 It's going to bring that forward to make it to help it make a little more sense to us when we're trying 02:54.940 --> 02:55.770 to control it. 02:56.680 --> 03:02.170 So with that done, a switch in and out of component mode to get back to object mode. 03:02.830 --> 03:04.960 I'm going to rename this to. 03:06.290 --> 03:16.960 Hips con and now need to make a slogan, so let's make a new circle for this and let's drag it up here. 03:17.330 --> 03:24.410 Want to turn off the polygons one more time and I'm going to vertically snap this to the joint. 03:25.610 --> 03:30.910 And we need to make this look a little bit differently because it's in the same place as the hips. 03:31.340 --> 03:37.730 So a good way is to just make it bigger and so that that will kind of be the primary one that we're 03:37.730 --> 03:39.530 going to want to select every time that we select it. 03:40.080 --> 03:42.300 So I'm just going to make this one slightly larger. 03:43.070 --> 03:48.860 And now if we show the polygons, we can see that indeed, that's probably going to be the one we're 03:48.860 --> 03:54.140 going to select the most, because the hip joint is really are the hip icon is really a secondary control. 03:54.950 --> 04:01.080 So I'm going to constrain the joint here to the hip. 04:01.080 --> 04:03.470 Economy's going to turn back on joint selection. 04:04.250 --> 04:11.300 So I'm going to select the main con and then the kog joint and just parent constrain that. 04:12.830 --> 04:14.900 Before I do that, I actually need to zero this out. 04:14.900 --> 04:16.880 And that's, of course, always the practice. 04:16.880 --> 04:21.080 We want to try to follow do that for the hip control as well. 04:21.620 --> 04:26.150 Just having to redo the last command that I did, which was for years transformation's. 04:26.690 --> 04:29.780 So I'm just going to name this kog con. 04:30.590 --> 04:39.440 And so now we can, with a selected select the Kog joint and we can constrain it with parent constraint. 04:40.310 --> 04:42.140 So if we just test that real quickly. 04:43.620 --> 04:50.040 And I can just zero or make that all one accidentally scaled it just a little bit, we can see that 04:50.040 --> 04:53.670 it will follow now and it will rotate and everything. 04:54.330 --> 05:00.750 And now we just need the hips to control the hip joint there. 05:00.750 --> 05:05.190 And we can do that by selecting the hip con again, just like we've done. 05:05.580 --> 05:08.700 And for this one. 05:11.390 --> 05:18.560 You know, what I'm going to do is and I'm going to only constrain the orientation so that we make sure 05:18.560 --> 05:21.230 that we stay on model, I don't want to translate the hips. 05:22.700 --> 05:27.860 Well, on second thought, this is kind of a cartoon character, so it might not be as important to 05:27.860 --> 05:28.490 stay on model. 05:28.490 --> 05:35.750 So let's just go ahead and do both parent and orient our point and orient so we'll do a parent. 05:36.260 --> 05:47.210 So let's go to constrain and parent and now we can actually move this joint and rotated as well without 05:47.210 --> 05:48.530 it affecting the spine. 05:49.010 --> 05:53.240 Now, if we were to move this, it's not going to move the bottom half. 05:53.570 --> 05:58.940 So a quick way to do that is actually to constrain this and or group it. 05:59.450 --> 06:03.380 We could the quickest way is just a group it or SA to parent it. 06:04.640 --> 06:06.980 And so when one moves, the other moves. 06:07.340 --> 06:07.730 Right. 06:08.060 --> 06:11.120 So that's definitely one way and. 06:12.220 --> 06:18.580 I don't like that way just because it looks like visually, I don't like seeing that they're both selected 06:18.580 --> 06:23.860 like this, when I when I select something, I want to know that's all I'm selecting. 06:23.860 --> 06:28.150 I don't because if I do this and I select both of them, it's hard to tell. 06:28.150 --> 06:28.960 That's what I've done. 06:29.560 --> 06:37.150 So I like to do parent constrains, even though it makes like for a few more nodes here. 06:38.530 --> 06:39.430 That's just my preference. 06:39.430 --> 06:45.430 So you can either parent it or you could do a pair constrained to a group of the hip icon, which is 06:45.430 --> 06:49.390 kind of my default for the reasons I've described. 06:50.230 --> 06:59.470 So I'm going to do what we are kind of familiar with and going to constrain to the con here. 07:00.400 --> 07:05.590 And then I'm going to try to keep this organized and put all of this under the con group. 07:07.120 --> 07:13.810 And the outliner, and so any time that I do anything on my rig, I always want to kind of test it and 07:13.810 --> 07:15.700 make sure it's doing what I expect it to do. 07:16.540 --> 07:22.300 So I'm going to do that for everything again and make sure everything's scaling as I expect it to. 07:22.720 --> 07:26.430 And the hips have their own control and I can move them. 07:26.920 --> 07:29.680 So it looks like everything's working. 07:29.680 --> 07:33.910 Well, I'm going to, you know, change these overrides and then we'll be done. 07:34.210 --> 07:38.020 So when we go down to enable overrides, when it changes to a yellow. 07:40.990 --> 07:47.890 And I don't really know, we could do another yellow, it's really up to you how you want to color these 07:47.890 --> 07:48.310 things. 07:49.420 --> 07:55.990 So in the next lesson, we will continue rigging this and maybe look at finishing up the spine and the 07:55.990 --> 08:01.960 head and then we'll move on to creating spaces for our hands so that they can move with the body or 08:01.960 --> 08:02.500 the world. 08:02.530 --> 08:03.160 Thanks for watching.