Really depends on the animator. Most of the ones taught to use this workflow seem to dig it.
It's also not a surprise you didn't know about it, most people don't because it's one of those functions that's completely unique to XSI. Coming in from other apps where you pretty much *have* to do the parent offset control, one would never even think to look. :-)
-Brad
> -------Original Message-------
> Ah ok, that i did not know. I still am a bit wary about the idea of letting
> animators play with objects that have constraints on though... they seem to
> find ways to break everything, the less on show the better ;)
>
> _______________
> Mike Malinowski
> Technical Artist - Guerrilla Games
>
>
>
>
> >From: "brad" <brad(at)cg-soup.com>
> >Reply-To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >Subject: RE: Rigging hands to a weapon
> >Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 00:34:03 +0000
> >
> >Actually, XSI's pose constraint comes with a very nice workflow such that
> >you don't have to do parent nulls for offsets anymore.
> >
> >Go ahead and constrain your mallet directly to the hand. When you need to
> >animate an offset, turn on constraint compensation mode. XSI will
> >automatically mark the constraint offsets instead of the local transforms.
> >Thus you can keep all animation for a control on a single control node.
> >
> >-Brad
> >
> > > Also, never constrain the controls themselves, give the controls
> >'offset'
> > > nulls and use these as parents for the controls, also placing the
> > > constraints on the offset nulls. This will allow you to have the
> >ability to
> > > move the hand or gun around relative to the motion that is driving
> >them.
> > > Extremely handy in certain situations.... pardon the pun.
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________
> > > Mike Malinowski
> > > Technical Artist - Guerrilla Games
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: "Byron Nash" <byronnash(at)gmail.com>
> > > >Reply-To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > > >To: xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> > > >Subject: Rigging hands to a weapon
> > > >Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:44:33 -0400
> > > >
> > > >I'm experimenting with some character animation during a slow day.
> >I've got
> > > >a character holding a 2 handed weapon that I would like him to swing
> > > >around.
> > > >I'd like to know if anyone could point me toward some good approaches
> >to
> > > >this problem. What's the best way to keep the palms attached to the
> >handle
> > > >while still allowing wrist movement? Do people normally constrain the
> >hands
> > > >to the handle or the handle to the hands?
> > > >
> > > >Tips, suggestions, appreciated...
> > > >
> > > >--
> > > >Byron Nash
> > > >www.armoredsquirrel.com
> > >
> > >
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