it dont sound like it sucks just sounds epicly complex x.x

rigging isn't much of a problem for me.

:p

Some software is easier than others. I've heard that Max has a better system to do this in, but I've never used it so I couldn't say one way or the other.

Since the leg / foot / toes are done, it's now merely a duplication step for the other three legs. Then a whole lot of renaming to do. Will have to do her wing rig, then figure out how I'm going to fold up the wing membrane when they're closed. Afterwords, the main body rig, and primary head and tail. Then will have to look at a secondary control setup for the facial expressions and whatnot.

Gonna take forever. lol

yeah, max has it better

it also has a pre setup for bones, already so you can add mostly everything

then use floating bones to add the rest like, wings, facial, and other limbs.

Damn, that doesn't look nice. I would build a rig for cynder in few mins in max (using CAT) :P But maybe you get more control over some things with that. dunno. :)

Srsly ?

A few minutes would be outstanding. I can dream . . . . lol

Well, tbh it would take about an hour to build the rig from scratch with some extra face bones and stuff. Few mins was a bit too optimistic, unless I'd use dragon preset. :P That takes few seconds to create and maybe 5 mins to adjust it to fit the model. But generally self made rigs work better.

Sine I have it available to me, I really should learn Max :/ I've been put off by it any time I fire it up as the whole thing is very sluggish for the initial 30-60 seconds or so ( interface wise ) then it comes to its senses and works perfectly. Dunno if that's normal but it's annoying for sure. lol

Is it weird that I think this would be hella fun? Must be weird. Guess I'll be signing up for these classes sometime in the next year.

Not weird actually.

There are some folks who do this, and only this, for a living. SOMEONE obviously has to enjoy it :D It just isn't me :D

And it's not even moving yet...

yeah no lie. Not even weight painted yet.


My brain is going to catch fire before it's all said and done.

This reminds me of everything I dislike about computer programming.

Heh. You're not alone in that. I only write Unix scripts but I hate it as well. This is like the object oriented version of scripting / programming. Get one thing wrong, misplace a comma, put an extra ")" somewhere and the entire thing will fail miserably :D

I've been tearing my hair out over the same model for a week. Feel your pain, bro :(

sometimes you just need an instruction manual.