I was recently back on doing some rigging tools and something occurred to me, after analyzing and working with a few different rigs, I realized that there really is no “one way” of doing this, so i wanted to reach out and have a chat about this perhaps there are things people do not know and or have some good tricks that would like to share in regard joint orientation, specifically :
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What’s your preferred Joint orientation method (eg: X point down the chain ,Y up, Z forward), and why?
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How do you handle Mirrored joints orientation?( which axis do you flip ?)
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How do you handle Controls being mirrored (for IK and FK for instance, do you Mirror behavior or keep controls oriented to the world?)
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do you keep all your orientation consistent through out the rig modules ? (for instance, the spine on a biped which is going upward would have X pointing to the next joint and Y in the -z, or would you use -Z as UP vector?)
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What’s the one most important rule ?
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Any cool tool you know and or way of orienting things ?
Any other tips and tricks you want to share ?
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