Help needed with rig

[karifan]

Hello there,

Can someone help me please. I have downloaded a lovely grasshopper + rig (Grasshopper 2.0.0 https://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/grasshopper) and doing a video for my daughter where she sings along. All is great, except that I don't know how to make the character turn and face different direction. I can rotate nearly all parts, like head, arms etc, but I can't make the grasshopper whole body turn. Also, if someone takes a look, IKs for arms are present but I don't know how to activate them, they dont work (though it's not that important, compared to ability to rotate the body). I use Maya 2012. I am a beginner in Maya, so if someone spends some minutes to take a look what are my problems, it would be so greatly valuable. I don't know how to reach the author, this rig was published back in 2007.

Thanks!

[cerina]

Hey! I looked over the rig. There is an icon called "Cekir". it is a circle icon on the ground. It works as the move all control.

As for the arm Ik... there is an icon in the hand called "rightHandControlFK" and there is one called "leftHandControlFK" for the other hand. In the channel box there should be a channel called "ikFk". If you change the value in there to 0 then the ik for the arms will work.

I hope this helps.

Good luck! 

[karifan]

Hi Cerina,

Thank you really much for taking time to look into my problem.
I've seen that circle on the ground and tried it before. It does manipulate the character, moving it in any direction and rotating it. BUT it can't do rotation, rather proper rotation, by Y axe, which is the most important one. It sort of twists the model, rotating some parts while keeping fixed others (e.g. upper legs). Maybe this is also some fairy value, like in the case of hand IK, that I should change to 0 or any other valus? :). And due to this issue  that I can't make the grasshopper move to any other direction but -z :((
And thanks for arms IKs! I learned how to do it.
Can you look into the rotation again, please?
Thank you!

[cerina]

It's no problem at all

I am going to look at the file again. I am using 2011. Hopefully it is not a version issue that is causing the problems. I'll look into it and get back to you.

[karifan]

Thank you, Cerina

I'm using 2012, so I hope it shuldn't be due to a version.

[cerina]

Hey! I just looked at the rig. I noticed the issue you were having with rotating the body. I tried sending you a message about the issue but it says we have to be friends in order to send messages. The issue is within the rig. Do you have any rigging experience?

[karifan]

Hi ! We're friends now and I've sent you a message.

[cerina]

Hey! I just fixed the issues in the rig and sent you a version of it.

Good luck!