Attention Maya Animators - Free SL Rig

Ahh sweet, this was exactly what i was looking for. thx for making it

Thanks alot for this, this is really great.

I'm new to maya and am having a problem, I could animate / move / rotate the feet, head, and chest sections fine. Yet when I try to move or rotate a part of the arm, the gizmo's arrows are greyed out, vs the normal green, red, and blue for xyz.

Anyone know how to unlock / unfreeze the arms or what I'm doing wrong.

Your best to use the arms in IK mode. You can go to one of the control circles and on the right side of the screen where all the numbers are there will be an attribute to turn on arm IK.

Its set to 0 default which is off, type 1 in each of those areas to turn it on. The controls for the hands will show up. Also be aware that these attributes are key-able so unless you key them at 1 they will not stay that way.

Ohhh ok thanks!

Hmm, I can't seem to figure out how to get into IK mode? I see the stuff on the right sidebar, but nothing to toggle IK mode or the like.

Heres a Picture:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/4818/maya9sb.jpg

Oh I see what you mean. Use ctrl-a to make that go away and come back. Theres also buttons up top near that trash can that turns those things on and off.

Sorry if this has been answered already, but I cant seem to find it anywhere. The download link is broken. Is there somewhere else this is uploaded by any chance?

Hi all,


Until tomorrow at work I can't try your rig, but looks amazing!. Thanks a lot in advance

Maybe you know it, but if you don't can you try a little trick? If the Maya scene doesn't use new features added from Maya 5.0 (or 6.0) then you can do this:

1. Save the file as .ma (Maya ASCII)
2. Open the resulting .ma file into a text editor and change:

a) Line 4: requires maya "7.0"; ->> to 5.0 (or 6.0)
b) Line 7: fileInfo "product" "Maya Unlimited 7.0"; ---> to 5.0 (or 6.0, maybe with the "requires maya" is enough)
c) Line 8: fileInfo "version" "7.0"; ---> the same...

3. Save the .ma file and try to load it into Maya 5.0, 6.0...


Regards,

Hi all. Anyone have this Maya rig mirrored someplace? I'd really like to try it out, but all the links here have gone dead. -Gregor

Thanks Orion,

This looks great. Any plans to make this easily support multiple characters, or am I just going to have to learn mel properly?

Gregor

Hi Orion,

How did you determine the scale for this rig? I'm trying to scale this more accurately to my av, but can't come up with a strategy that's likely to be accurate? Alternatively, is there a standard av acale that i can emulate in the game?

Thanks,

Gregor

Does the rig go on and offline? I keep seeing a thread about someone getting it, then a thread about it being down, and it's down right now.

... but I've attached it here. If anyone (important) is offended or angry, I'll yank it down.

Installed the Rig into Maya8
Ah seems to work fine so far, Cheers!.

Hi,

Great work building the rig for Maya, as a Maya animator I appreciate not having to learn new software to produce content for SL. I'm having trouble getting my BVH's into SL though. I've followed your procedure and everything seems fine, exports fine, but when I upload into SL it says "Failed to initialize motion" .. am I missing a step somewhere?

Using Maya 7

Cheers,
Mune

Great work! I too would like ot make animations in SL using maya, but for some reason when I try to open the file after download.. i gt teh following error...

! C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\maya\projects\default\scenes\SLRig_1.01.zip: Unexpected end of archive



Any ideas why this is happening?


Thanks


Edit: Also on a side note.. any one know how to add something to the shelf? I am still a newb at Maya.

From what I've seen, that only happens if the first frame isn't the default animation. Just make the first frame the default animation or leave it at that, whichever is faster, and then make your animation and try uploading it again.

I think you may have to unzip it first... I might be wrong (knows next to nothing about Maya itself). Yeah (read the readme file heh), unzip it then:

Setup:

1. Copy the included file “shelf_SecondLife.mel” to the directory:
“\My Documents\maya\7.0\prefs\shelves\”

2. Copy the file “SLRig_1.01.mb” to whatever directory you want to start a project in, and then open it with Maya.

Edit: To add it to the shelf, just open My Documents, look for a folder named maya, open it up and open up the 7.0 part if you have 7.0, open up prefs, then open up shelves and you can put the file there.

I tried to unzip the zip file and got an error anyone have a good zip please

This rig is awesome!!!!! Works great with maya 8.5 too thanks Orion!!! I tried to find you in world to make a donation for your awesome work, but couldnt

Has anyone else had this problem? Everytime I either save it in script editor, or directly drag and drop it into the shelf (I've even gone so far to actually open the maya package and find where this should go, with no luck). Is there another way to export animations in maya to a .bvh file?

The main link for this is broken and the attachment is corrupt does anyone have a working link for this file.

thank you
Eazel

Has Orion Neville vanished? Can't seem to find him anywhere. Not listed on Search any more, either.

I was hoping to use Maya to do some animations for SL, because its just what I'm used to, but I've been having difficulty getting started. This rig looked really promising, but I'm having the same problem with the links and the attachment.

If this rig is nowhere to be found any more, can any Maya animators give some tips for getting something usable by SL out of Maya?

Does anybody have a copy of the file SLRig_1.01.zip ? The main link from author is dead and his site is dead as well.....the attached filed from someone else is corrupted...

Just wondering if this rig or something newer is still available for Maya. Looked handy