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Thanks a lot 😁

You just need to parent the base bones of the tongue (first deformation bone and CTRL-Base) to the jaw controller of your character's rig

@@rakenvalnot working for me, when I open the mouth the def bone and the ctrl base move making the base of the tongue go to the other side of the throat and the tongue doesn’t stays fully on the lower part of the mouth, it goes with the motion but doesn’t stay in the same position,it start just below the teeth and when fully open it’s above them

Hmm it could be due to multiple reasons, I can't seem to reproduce a similar issue on my rig I would unparent the tongue from the jaw, make sure the Master Controllers are parented to the Base Controller, and rotate it to see if the whole tongue moves as one (except for the first deformation bone that could stretch depending if it's parentyed to the base or not, it's ok it dosen't matter). If it does move "as one", then it probably dosen't come from the tongue rig. If it dosen't move "as one", you'll have to recheck the parenting hierarchy, and if the Hooks modifiers of the curve are working correctly. I can't really guess what the exact issue is since I don't know your whole rig Sometimes it can also be a weight painting issue, but I doubt it is the case here If you have multiple jaw bones (def, mechanisms, controllers...), maybe some will work better than others

@@rakenval ok, know it works, after remaking to see if I miss anything, I didn't anything, there are a few more that need to be parented to the jaw, the MCH_FK_loc_tongue.001and CTRL_IK_tongue.001 and both first deformation bone and CTRL-Base, the problem I had was the system use to stretch the FK chain was been left behind and the MCH_FK_loc_tongue.001 was the source of my problems, now i have different problem that been the scale, when i scale in FK and change to IK the scale stays and then if i scale in IK i'm scalling over the scale made in FK

Yeah, the only automatic lip sync tech I've seen so far required Shape Key-based rigs (but I admittedly don't know a lot of them). I'm more interested in manual posing/animation though.

I assume you need a minimum amount of topology for it to look good but otherwise yes

I'm sure they'll add a built-in hair simulation for it eventually

I will 👍

thanks! I aim to upload part 2 wednesday night or thursday 👍

спасибо for the support ! And you're welcome (I'm sorry I don't know any other russian word 😅)

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As long as you hold it at the same time as you click, it should still work 👍 But tbf this one is easy to miss It works on almost every type of value or option, as long as it shares the same name and / or number as the rest of the selected bones (or objects)

@@rakenval tysm for your response!!

Thanks 😄 I started learning with the first course "The art of effective rigging" from P2Design a while ago, also read "A complete guide to character rigging for games" by Armin Halac, both are really good for beginners and will give you a solid base. P2Design yt channel has really good tutos too. But at this point most of my skills come from experimenting when building rigs on my own. Practice is the best way to learn and come up with your own techniques 👍

I'm sorry I'm not sure I understand the question 😅

My dublicated Curves are not rotating that much Like yours…just a lil angel

Do you mean you can't bend them as much with the comb brush ? Maybe you do not have enough curve points ?

@@rakenval no the dublicated Curves…are rotated…in your case in some cases 90 degress…in My Case they only rotate in 25 degress?

@@rakenval I found only the Way to Select all Curves. Copy them on the same Place and then Rotate them with Ctrl-T....Did u make it with this Way?

I've absoluetly no idea, I'm sorry 😅 I know unreal allow for alembic export for hair grooms but when it come to simulations, I've never tried so I don't know how it works

That's normal, you just need to add strands with the Add brush or the density brush

@@rakenval na, after i add a hair empty and go to sculpt mode it doesnt show hair tools like in the video, it shows sculpt tools

@@Bryce-s4pAh, make sure you're going in Sculpt Mode for the empty hair object, not the surface mesh

@@rakenval not working bro, im telling you. im doing what your doing and not seeing the same thing.

well then I don't know I'm sorry, it's kind of hard to guess just like that, with blender a million things can go wrong😅 But if you're seing regular sculpt tools, either you're definitely not in the empty hair object, or this is a bug I'm unaware of

Probably not, at least not on this one 😅

I'm sorry it was what worked best for me 😅 You could slow it down and follow the subtitles maybe

@@rakenval 😘

All the bones from the Wing rig are scaled down and folded thanks to an Action constraint, no shape key required ^^ The hair curves used for the small coverts are also shortenned with a Trim modifier and a driver (otherwise they stick out of the back)

Thanks, yes the model's mine 😄 In a nutshell it's handpainted (well except for the hair ofc), plus toon shaders I don't think I'll make a tuto on how to fully recreate it but maybe I'll post some techniques or a creation timelaspe in the future

@@rakenval sweet! no worries about making a whole tut. Either way the texturing on your models only come second to your rigging, can't wait to see what else you do!

Thanks ! Maybe in the future !

I'm thinking about it, either a full course or a short tuto per technique, I don't know yet

@@rakenval I have been using and learning blender for 3 years but your artworks is really very nice, i have not ever seen this quality rigging work. please make rigging course...

Thanks ! A tuto for the whole thing is a huge task, and while I'm thinking about doing more tuto/courses I've no idea when it'll be 😅

I think this is in EEVEE.

Thanks ! It's Eevee, textures are hand-painted and the material uses a toon shader

thanks a lot !

Thanks It's a fantasy made-up mantis 😄

Yep, the node converting curves into cards must always be at the end of the stack, because after turning the curves into meshes they loose their curve status and cannot be affected by hair modifiers anymore

With this specific technique that would be more complicated to achieve, as it relies on the planes and the curves to have the same amount of vertices / same index numbers I've been working on a new technique that allows you to have whatever mesh you want on the curves, no matter the point count and indexes, but in the meantime, I'd recommend to either use three curves instead, with one plane per curve (you can tweak the tilt manually in edit mode with ctrl T) But if you're feeling like learning more about geonodes, I can also recommend the channel of ErindDoes, he has a great tutorial about deforming meshes along curves with geonodes, maybe it'll help you achieve what you want

@@rakenval Thanks for your quick answer. Even though I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean, I'll try making that, and watch Erindoes' tutorials as well. Thank you :)

Hey, thank you very much ! I started learning with the first rigging course from P2Design, then completed it with youtube tutorials and books. It also took a whole lot of experimenting on my own. Once you know the basics from courses and tutos it becomes easier to build you own mechanisms, even if it still requires a lot of trial and error

@@rakenval which books and tutorials you watched after? I'm learning rigging with the P2Design course but the stuff you have done seems so much more advanced

I can't really tell you the tutos because it's been a while since I've started learning and I've watched a bit of everything, I only know for sure that I reused part of the technique from the IK dog leg rigging tuto from P2Design. The books were the Anatomy for sculptors collection (not about rigging, but anatomy is super important for bone placements and undertsanding of the movements the rig is supposed to achieve), and "A complete guide to character Rigging for games using Blender" by Armin Halac, you may have already heard of this one if you follow P2Design tuts. Great one for beginners, and even more advanced riggers can find interesting stuff in there. But you won't find techniques similar to those I used on the mantis in the books. I've been buidling rigs on my own for like 2 years now, practice is the key to make more advanced custom mechanisms 👍