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Couerl · 27th October 2007, 18:10

Well, there isn't anything out there to buy or find, at least nothing that is going to solve your problem here..

C6 is worth it for the NLA alone in a case like this because it allows you to layer the animation and blend it. Each arm in effect can be given its own animation group and that helps compartmentalize the whole thing so you can deal with individual aspects of the animation without screwing up the rest of it, plus the expense is minimal if you already have C5, what's 100 bucks these days when it comes to your job? If you're using C5 in a working pipeline there's zero reason not to upgrade..

In order to fix that one arm you really have to identify why it is behaving oddly for you (I haven't done that so don't worry about me going over the top as far as help goes) and I can only imagine it is a bad IK target helper or twisted/messed up bones.. Poser style figures can end up looking like pretzels too or bending in impossible positions if they are not setup exactly right (which nothing ever is to begin with). I might try to re-rig that one arm and see if that will get you by.

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Couerl Polygurbs Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Denver Posts: 1,295	Well, there isn't anything out there to buy or find, at least nothing that is going to solve your problem here.. C6 is worth it for the NLA alone in a case like this because it allows you to layer the animation and blend it. Each arm in effect can be given its own animation group and that helps compartmentalize the whole thing so you can deal with individual aspects of the animation without screwing up the rest of it, plus the expense is minimal if you already have C5, what's 100 bucks these days when it comes to your job? If you're using C5 in a working pipeline there's zero reason not to upgrade.. In order to fix that one arm you really have to identify why it is behaving oddly for you (I haven't done that so don't worry about me going over the top as far as help goes) and I can only imagine it is a bad IK target helper or twisted/messed up bones.. Poser style figures can end up looking like pretzels too or bending in impossible positions if they are not setup exactly right (which nothing ever is to begin with). I might try to re-rig that one arm and see if that will get you by.