I’ve been looking at some guides for rigging using Blender but right now I can’t wrap my head around how people manage to rig models that aren’t actual characters. For example I’m attempting to use a basic Bear Trap model and am attempting to setup so I could add two bones so it’ll be able to be animated of it closing.
This is currently what the basic model looks like in Blender;
If anyone could help me out with setting this up and giving me a step-by-step guide I’d appreciate it. If you want the model yourself to test and making sure your correct for the rig it’s in a fbx format. The download link is;
Well for starters your model is highly inefficient (22k tris?) but i think something like this could easily be handled by blueprints actually by splitting the model into 3 pieces (2x claws and the centre plate). As for doing it with normal bone + skin weights, I only have experience with Maya so I can’t really help you there unless you want to use mayaLT
Thanks for the help, currently downloading Maya 2014 so I can test that out for modeling. Also didn’t even think about the simplest way would be to indeed break it up. I might redo the model and make my own based on the design of this one, still don’t know much about the triangles, quads, etc and how much of a performance decrease they can cause.
