Quadruped Custom Rig Controller Tutorial by GameYan

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Quadruped Custom Rig Controller Tutorial
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Quadruped Custom Rig Controller Tutorial

• This is an overview about the rigging of
  quadruped characters.
• Here is a step-by-step introductioninto the
  creation of a Character.
• so lets open Blender with the model of a
  Character.
• To begin I recommend to move the Character to a
  separate layer.

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Custom Quadruped Rigging
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Quadruped Custom Rig Controller Tutorial
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Quadruped Custom Rig Controller Tutorial

• Select a new head, original head and add
  Bland Shape, make sure that we have to
  select Front Chain in Create Bland Shape options
• Now we can  play with our new head! We can sculpt
  it or use deformers to modify his face. 
• Turn on your Blend Shape so you can see how it
  looks on the original head.
• To turn on Blend Shape, go to Window gt Animation
  Editors gt Blend Shape, the Blend Shape you just
  add should be blendShape3 look for it and
  scroll it up.
• We should not add more polygons to the head, it
  may cause some problems.

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Quadruped Custom Rig Controller Tutorial
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Quadruped Custom Rig Controller Tutorial

• Unlock the duplicate head from the original head.
•  Select face that you want to turn it to
  eyebrows, then press shift key
•  Now, extrude and smooth the brows then, place
  our new brows on the original head.
• We will attach brows to the head using Wrap
  Deformers, select brows and head. Go
  to CreateDeformers gt Wrap. Use brows control to
  check it.

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For Leg Movement

• First, select Leg gt select geometry gt go
  to Create Deformers gt Wrap.
• Next, select leg gt select geometry gt go to Edit
  Deformers gt Wrap gt Add Influence. Repeat this
  process till the last geometry underneath the
  leg. Do the sam
•  If you get a warning No points were weighted to
  the wrap. Try increasing the maxDistance
  setting. Select the geometry that contains that
  wrap, go to wrap output channel and change the
  number on Max Distance.e process with another leg.

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Quadruped Custom Rig Controller Tutorial

• Same Way you can do with the hand Movement.
• As per the above instructions you can give the
  movements to the hands too.
• Selected finger can move , then select next one
  with the same process.

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Here, as you can see the circles now we will give
some movements to that area.
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Here is how to give a leg movement
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Characters Movements
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Creating Characters Siting Movement
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Standing pose
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