TCB conrtoller in Maya?

[hotliver]

Is anyone aware of any plugin that will allow me to use TCB (Tension, Continuity, Bias) in Maya quaternion rotations? If not, does anyone know how to fake continuity as it is used in Max?

Thanks
Paul

[ragtag]

Check out the time warp script on highend3d.

What you can do is what the script does. Add an attribute that weights the time input going into the animation curve. You can then adjust the tangents on the time to get ease in/ease out, break tangents etc. etc.

Ragnar

[hotliver]

Thanks Ragner. I

[ragtag]

The Maya 4.0.1 update adds spline interpolation of quaternions....that might solve your problem.

Secondly, with something like a finger you probably should just use euler. A finger has such a limited freedom of movement, that if you position the rotation axis/order correctly there won't be any problem with gimbal lock.

Ragnar

[deke-kincaid]

Secondly, with something like a finger you probably should just use euler. A finger has such a limited freedom of movement, that if you position the rotation axis/order correctly there won't be any problem with gimbal lock.

Actually with a finger you shouldn't even be using IK. Just stick with set driven keys on the rotations of the bones in the fingers.

Deke Kincaid

[hotliver]

You people crack me up
First of all, I

[squeige]

In reply to:
wouldn`t you be better off path animating to an s instead of all that trouble...??
group whatever ure using to control the hand and path animate the group, then just create an s text.... and useat will....
if u need to have freeedom of hand after its done then use a constraint wich you can turn on and off at willl
well bye bye for now

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