Realistic Bouncing Boobies

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And now every guy's favorite subject - titties
j/k
seriously though, I have imported Victoria 2 into Maya and I'm trying to animate her. But, as any guy can tell you, her boobies must bounce. My problem is that the jiggle deformer seems to bounce her boobies in the direction of motion instead of opposite. Secondly, maintaining a constant volume doesn't seem to happen automatically. I'm trying not to use softbodies because of a slow computer and too much setup for a simple effect.
I really wish there was a tutorial about this somewhere.

Thanks.

[warpcat]

We had to have an, ahem, "breast solution" for our game. While it's not technically impressive, it works just fine. Basically, make a cluster for each breast, and then just assign either an expression, or some dynamics to it to make it "move". The volume will maintain, and it dosen't take long to setup.

[ragtag]

Check out hte jiggle.mel here at highend3d. It can be used to drive clusters or shapes, and you can easily limit the maximum effect. It's more or less the same as what Warpcat is saying, as the jiggle script simply creates an expression that takes care of the jiggling.

Ragnar

[joojaa]

Heres the ultimate solution (but you wont like it). Model your breast. create sphere inside (you may need to tweak the shape a bit for the most realistic cavity deformations, actually you want multiple spehers but 1 will do) Then you make this a softbody and assing it springs (now you need to tweak like hell, or you could use juggle instead, the internal jiggle not the mel), set some apropriate values remeber to put damping. Then bind the boobies into your bone structure using constraints and apply some gravity. Then using soft then add this to your sfoft bound bone structure....

[trazor123]

I'm fairly new to Maya, so I was wondering if anyone would have any time to err, set up a simple tutorial regarding this...topic about bouncing using the jiggle.mel that someone mentioned. Thank you for your time. Has anyone noticed there aren't many tutorials about this on the Internet?

[trazor123]

In examples I mean like maybe a screenshot or two on a website showing example bone structures, or go all out and write up a full tutorial. Bet that would generate a lot of hits

[jared-lindquist]

You might just have to go with what's on the jiggle.mel author's webpage. Either way, you'd really have to experiment to get the results you want.
If you really want to go overboard, you could create a low-poly mesh to use as a wrap deformer. Once the jiggle controls are applied, apply a cluster to each vertex. Theses should allow you to fix any weird deformations, and help fake volume. (I'm currently testing this idea, so I don't yet know just how insane it could be)

[trazor123]

Alright, I'll try that out, thanks