Re: Re[2]: The Setup Machine?

["Raffael Dickreuter" <raffael3d(at)gmail.com>]

setup machine is definitely great.


stean, I just have to laugh everytime I see your company name. Swiss.se, just doesnt make any sense! .-) a Swedish company pretending to be Swiss being run bei Swedes! .-)

cheers mate. funny to also see a lot of Mill guys and british here in LA these days .-)

cheers
raffael

On 9/16/07, Stefan Andersson < sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:

I would love to help out and give pointers at what is needed and what
animators like and dislike from a rig like Setup Machine.

regards
Stefan


On 9/16/07, Frank Lenhard <franky(at)ixdream.com> wrote:
> we will do such a thing, similiar to the setupmachine, here at PiXABLE.
> we're not yet even started on it, just researching and ressource collecting.
>
> however, we're very serious about that and we work together with a big
> game studio here in germany who will buy it for their animation
> pipleine too. the coding part is also filled. what we need now is a
> very detailed paper on what the rig must be able to do and HOW it will
> do that. means, the rigging part of it :)
> even though i cant offer you any help right now, stefan, maybe you
> wanna join with your expertise and knowledge?
>
> as a side note, there is the auto rigging tutorials from 3dquakers.
> you can generate a humanoid rig via an autorigger system. but it wont
> be anything like setupmachine.....
>
> ciao
> franky
>
>
> Sunday, September 16, 2007, 12:57:54 PM, you wrote:
>
> SA> Just investigated the biped rig... and it's the same as I remembered.
>
> SA> So..... question... Anyone has a "Setup Machine Solution for XSI"
> SA> which they are willing to sell?
> SA> NO! I'm not going to try and make it myself, I don't have time for
> SA> it... I rather just buy a solution like what we have done for Maya :)
>
> SA> Anyone else interested in this? I'm sure we are quite many people who
> SA> are interested in it, and I think it would serve the XSI community in
> SA> hole if a solution like this was available.
>
> SA> The guys at Anzovin don't have the resources right now to make a TSM
> SA> for XSI, but they are interested in it. It's not the best rig in the
> SA> world, but it's a thousand times better than the biped guide (which I
> SA> have never been able to use in production).
>
> SA> regards
> SA> stefan andersson
>
>
> SA> On 9/12/07, Kris Rivel <krisrivel(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> No it hasn't changed in v6.  The biped rig is ok but it does need some
> >> improvements.  The rig guide is awful and needs a complete overhaul.  I see
> >> demos of user made rig guides that appear far superior and easier to setup.
> >> The hands for example are impossible to get right using the rig guide since
> >> rotating the rig guide elements can result in problems.  The rig itself I
> >> think needs to adopt the more common practices of current rigging techniques
> >> like using secondary controls for zeroing out things and maybe even having
> >> things like built-in stretchy limbs and full IK control over any limb or
> >> joint.  The list could go on and on but in short....I think it needs some
> >> updating.  I just wonder when this would happen since Mike Isner, the brains
> >> behind the current rig setup, seems mostly involved with Face Robot still.
> >>
> >> Kris
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/12/07, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi All,
> >> > I know it only exists for maya.... anyone knows though if a similar
> >> > thing is availble for XSI? The biped guide (and the rig it creates)
> >> > isn't really production friendly to say the least. I haven't tested it
> >> > in v6 yet since we haven't gotten our licenses yet, but I doubt there
> >> > has been any change to it all.
> >> >
> >> > regards
> >> > stefan andersson
> >> >
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