You spin the main cog and everything else moves by itself. This will help us set up a really satisfying automatic bike chain rig.

Then we’ll be doing a little intro to Mograph Cloners and Xpresso.

Setting up Basic Bike Controls, arranging your bike model for spinning the wheels and steering control.

I’d really recommend doing that one first, but if you’re here to just get a bike ready for animation then everything is provided in the class materials for you to follow along! This class is a follow up to my last class, ' How to rig your first character in Cinema 4D'. I cut the hair out to turn them into different objects, turned them into cloth materials then used the cloth belt tag to attach them to the head/hairband that's holding the ponytail and it basically works.Hellooo! Today we’re going to rig a bike in Cinema 4D! In the last class we rigged a full character, in this class we’ll put that character on a bike ready for some cycling animation. Hopefully that makes sense and thanks in advance!Įdit: Kinda got what I wanted in the end. Same happens if I bake it into an alembic.

The rest of the body would follow the animation of the rig - baked if necessary that's no problem.Ĭlosest I've got is a soft body tag with a mass map set to a point selection of just the ponytail, but this makes the body float around like it's in space, and when it's attache to a rigged animation the whole thing warps and melts into madness. I want the ponytail and other parts of her hair (polygons not hair material) to just sway/bounce while she walks, then potentially the same with clothes too that might be attached in some parts and loose in others (eg a skirt attached at the hip). I have a low-poly character, rigged up and nicely animated via Mixamo. Is this even possible? I'm almost pulling my hair out searching.

C4d rigged character