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Another way to fix your problem is to select each object and in the Editing Buttons (F-9) in the "Mesh" panel click the "Center New" button. What this does is shift the object's origin to the new median for that object. That way if you do mistakenly clear the location it should stay put. I tend to do this for every model by default after I apply the rotations / location (CTRL-A).

Ok Wildcat, I've changed the tutorial to reflect that clearing should be done in either weight paint mode or pose mode. Thanks for clearing that up....

That's even better, and it's something I should've eventually discovered on my own. Actually, I kind of did, as I forged ahead and learned myself how to make the eyes track an object. Their initial origin is the same point as the rest of the figure, at or near 0,0,0... and "track to" induced all sorts of wildness 'til I caught on and applied "Center New".

Since I've spent much of my time here offering problems, I'll share a solution for a change! For those wanting the ability to pose the eyes, you'll want each eye to move independently of the other, which I imagine is difficult if they're "locked" together as part of the same object. What I did was to Duplicate the Eyes object, rename it "Eye.L" and move it to another layer. I renamed the current object "Eye.R", then went into edit mode, and deleted the left eye. I then switched to the other object and deleted the right eye, moving that object back to the main layer when finished.

I made sure to parent each eye to the Head bone, and then Weight-Painted the entirety of each eye to a factor of "1". They'll move with the head, but they aren't prevented from rotating, then "Track To" is applied.

Thanks again again, Penix1!

Wildcat

I think I've made another mistake. I seem to be lost on this part of the tutorial:



However, try as I might, I can't select that bone while in weight paint mode. I think I inadvertently cleared the weight paint data for the entire mesh.

Go to pose mode and select the jaw bone. Click the body mesh right after that and go to weight paint mode. The jaw should be selected now.

And that's got it. Thanks!

Here's a hugely stupid question: In all your screens you have the armature superimposed (and editable) over the Body mesh. How do you do this?

I can't seem to get my view into this arrangement. It's driving me crazy as I can't successfully manipulate the armature while in Weight Paint mode. I've been forward and backward through your tutorial and can't see any setting I missed that might explain the deviation.

Feeling rather dumb over it.

Thanks a lot for the work you put into these!

Under the "Object" buttons (F-7) you will find a tab called "Draw". Turn on "X-Ray" and "Wire" for the armature.



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The "Wire" setting is just a preference of mine. Most modelers leave it solid. I prefer wire so I can see the underlying mesh for correct placement. It keeps the bones out of the way.

Thanks a million! I'm particularly elated that you managed to get back to me so quickly. I'm glad I'm not the only one Blendering away on a Sunday night...

hi penix1

its me again
im in trouble with the teeth rigging, there is something i do wrong.
i parented the teeth to the armature. hided the upper teeth. weight painted the lower teeth.
the upper teeth are blue and the lower red.

when i rotate the jaw both parts of teeth moves (the upper a little bit faster )

i made a video and uploaadet it to youtube where you can see how i rotate it and at the end of the vid i change to weight paint where you can see the colors of my weight painting.

dont know where the failure is

greetz gueni

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=OmUBCRRbUZ0


edit: what do you think about to seperate the upper teeth to an object an parent it with the head?

Thanks! I'm still delving through all of this, but its quite easy to follow.

Just a possible change you might want to make, to set IK constraints in 2.48 it is Shift+I, not, as previously, Ctrl+I.

@gueni:

I saw the video and it does illustrate what you are talking about. Can you post your blend so I can see what is going on? Also, did you unhide the upper teeth before posing? I'll have to look into this since my model doesn't behave like that.

@psyced:
Thanks for the change. I'll update the tutorial in a day or so. This is one of those things I hate about the rapid development of Blender. It makes for hades on tutorials!

Hello everyone...

I've been doing the same work as this tutorial, and perhaps I can contribute something.
Here is a screenshot of the same MakeHuman head with a full set of Preston Blair Visemes:

http://brkurt.googlepages.com/rinRig3.png

and here is the .blend file, sorry, I haven't rigged the Armature yet.

http://brkurt.googlepages.com/rinRig3.blend

I'm going for a dreaming body look, not high realism, so I'm using a glassy material.

Hth!

Hello everyone...

I forgot to add the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwaxVi6DcIw

This one just runs you through all the visemes, eyebrow and eyelid shape keys. Makehuman 9.1 RC1a, when exported as an .obj file, messes up around the eyelid folds and mouth corners, and has to fixed manually for smooth lip sync. Zoom in on the eyelids of a recent import to see what I'm talking about.

My setup for this was very funky: I'm using a 500 MHz P3 with 640 Meg Ram running Puppy 3.01 and Blender 2.47 for my work station, and rendering using a 1.6 GHz P4 with 384 Meg Ram running Kubuntu 7.04. You need an Ubuntu version to python wxgtk to install, which is necessary for Papagayo.

Penix1..... I just wanted to say that this tutorial series is outstanding and I salute you sir!

I highly recommend it to anyone faced with the challenge of character modelling and rigging in Blender.