Animation and Rigging Tools: FAQ, Known Issues and Feature Roadmap

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@DavidBN;216650

I’m wondering if FK Space switching is working as intended on neck and head.

If I set an arm to FK and World Space and rotate the character using offset_anim then the hand stays put in world space. When rotating master_anim the entire character rotates as one piece. So this is working exactly like I’d hope / expect.

The head and neck, however, fail to hold on to world space when offset_anim is moved.

Ideally the head and neck would utilize rotation limits, a stickiness and snap factor to keep the head from twisting too far and killing the character. As character rotation continues the head would reverse rotation and snap to the other extreme when that would put it closer to target.

I’m assuming the nodes that keep them in that space must be under the offset anim in the hierarchy. I just took a look and yep, that’s the issue (sorry!) Not sure how our animators haven’t called that out, though I don’t think they animate offset/master controls often for their cycles. If you move the head_sys_grp located under the ctrl_rig group(which is under the offset_anim), and reparent that group to the master, that should do the trick for ya.