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Parent hand of one figure to a different figure.

Steel RatSteel Rat Posts: 398
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

In Poser, this was trivial to do, but you couldn't undo it (at least I never figured out how). But I'm not seeing a way in DS to do this.

Let's say you have two figures holding hands, and you want their hands to stay together as you pose them. Is it possible in DS?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,669

    Casual has some free scripts that will help with this. the current Public Build series, 4.12.0.67 now, introduces parentable IK targets which can be used for this kind of thing.

  • Steel RatSteel Rat Posts: 398

    Thanks Richard.

    I looked through Casual's scripts, but the only thing that seemed possibly relevant was PinMeDown, but I don't think that will do what I need.

    Been searching, but don't know how to get to the public builds of DS.

  • TheKDTheKD Posts: 2,699

    You have to "buy" it, then use DIM to install it. In DIM go to the gear icon, then download tab, and check public build to see it in available downloads

  • Steel RatSteel Rat Posts: 398

    I'm not seeing where to "buy" it.

    I checked the public build option on DIM, but I don't see a public build avaialble for download or install.

  • Steel RatSteel Rat Posts: 398

    Never mind, found the link to add to my cart in another thread.

    Thanks!

  • Steel RatSteel Rat Posts: 398

    Ok, I've got 4.12 public build loaded. I'm not seeing anything different when using the multi-selector or the bone selector. Just the standard translation and rotation pins. Been looking through the menus and parameters, but nothing.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,669

    You need to select the bones of the IK chain you want - e.g. the hand to the shoulder.

    Create>New IK Chain

    Parent the new IK chanin node to the hand of the other figure

    Turn on the pinning and reach settings for the chain in the Parameters pane

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,669
    Richard Haseltine said:

    You need to select the bones of the IK chain you want - e.g. the hand to the shoulder.

    Sory, that was wrong - there's no need to or benefit from selecting more than one bone before creating the chain, just select the hand (for this) and DS will assign reasonable start and end bones.

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Create>New IK Chain

    Parent the new IK chanin node to the hand of the other figure

    Turn on the pinning and reach settings for the chain in the Parameters pane

     

  • Steel RatSteel Rat Posts: 398

    Is that going to be undo-able?

    I found that standard pinning in PB isn't working, neither do the translate and rotate tools.

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