A merry christmas to everyone in the AM community.

Here is my christmas present to you.
http://www.sonofpat.com/sure_rig/Sure_Rig.prj

SURE= Sonofpats' Userfriendly Rig for Everyone.

The project file includes the following

1) A fully rigged model (Samley_Rigged).
2) An unboned model (Samley).
3) A rigged "Skeleton" (SURE_Rig).
4) An unrigged "Skeleton" (SURE_Skeleton).

The idea is to provide a user friendly rig that is easy to animate.
Basic joint deformation is built into the rig with proper arm behavior.
These can be tweaked for your model and be further enhanced with
smartskin and cp weights.

Most of all the inner workings of the rig are available to every via
the tutorials(http://www.sonofpat.com/Tutorials.html).
It will therefor be a great tool for those who want to try their hand at rigging.

Here is quick and dirty user manual

Note well, this is a pre-released version of the rig. The final version will contain
a proper user manual that will show how to tweak the rig to suit your model along with PDF versions of the tutorials. In addition, the ability to shrug shoulders will be added. It was omitted from this version because the last modification I made
http://www.sonofpat.com/IA_Files/Arm_Rig4.prj broke the automatic arm twisting mechanism in FK mode. I have since fixed this but I do not have the time to make the changes now.

The final version will be ready in time for the new year.

Oooo! A replacement for the 2001 rig???? It looks nice! Off to try it out. Well done.

THANKS PAT!!!

Thank you! and Merry Xmas to you too, Pat.

From...er..Pat!

Thank's for the graet Christmass present Pat and Merry Christmass to you ,have a good one

Great job.
Merry Christmass

thanks and merry x-mas.
sorry i can't check it right now. i'm on holyday now.

Thanks a lot Pat!!!

Wow!

Do I have to wait until tomorrow morning to open it?

Thanks for your generosity, Pat. I look forward to trying out the rig shortly.

Have a great Christmas and New Year !

Hi Pat,

Just tried it out a little and I like it a LOT! I haven't had a chance to disect it much, but I think I may be using this rig in all my new characters. Thank you for the Christmas present to the community.

Merry Christmas to you!

Jim

Thanks Pat! Very generous. I'll have a lot of fun looking it over...have a Merry Christmas.

I`ve just downloaded and will try it out later.

Thanks, and have a great Christmas!

Thank and merry chrismas to all

Thanks so much Pat you rock! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Thanks Pat! Will definitely be checking it out.

Thanks Pat for the nice present ! Will try it out after the holidays.

Merry Xmas to you (and everybody else) !

Fred

Looks like a great rig! Thank you!

yay!!! thanks, and merry christmas to you all!

Thanks Pat, very much appreciated as a new user I will have some fun getting to know this rig.
Have a very nice Christmas and again Thankyou


Bill

thanks a lot for share us your knowledge Pat, great rig...Merry Christmas...

Samley animation rig test one

Thanks Pat Santa. I have been having fun with my new toy this morning!

I am having a little problem with the hands drifting as if there is another hidden bone doing animation to them so you may want to talk to your elfs to have them take a look at them to see what is going on there.

here is a little movie of what i did about 20 minutes.

Patos, you're brilliant!!!

That is one great rig and model!
There will be some fun stuff that comes out of this!

Thanks again.

Great rig Pat, I love it. I did find one problem though, the right bicep rotator is not working properly, I thought the constraints were broken so I redid them and the problem is still there, not sure what is causing the problem, maybe it's my PC. It seems to be with the orient like right bicep rotator target constraint. I went into a top view, turned on all constraints and positioned the hand target nulls so the arms were at 90 degrees, hands forward. In that position you can see the right bicep rotator does not orient like the rotator target. Can someone confirm this for me? keep up the great work, I'm looking forward to the final version. Thanks for your hard work on this project, it's very much appreciated.

The SURE rig has been updated. The new version can be found @

http://www.sonofpat.com/sure_rig/Sure_Rig2.prj

The following changes have been made:
1) The wriggler has been given a translate limit constrain of 0 in
all direction
2) Rotating the foot in the horizontal plane twists the leg.This
can be further tweaked by twisting the knee contol bone.
This was accidentally left out in my haste to upload in time
for christmas

Thanks for all the kind comments.
This is my way of saying thanks to you for all the help
you gave to me over the years I have spent with AM.

Far Star Productions

That clip made my christmas.

Can't solve the hand problem though, you may have to resort
zero sloping or double keying to solve this.

mtpeak2
I don not have any problem,the right bicep rotator is working
properly on my model. Maybe this new version will solve it for you.

Exelent rig!!!! Great job! I love it! Pat. Merry christmas to all!

Thanks serg2,

Maybe you can add your auto rig to it and see how it turns out.

As a matter of fact we can make it an open source rig where people are
encouraged to make any modification they see fit and share with us how it was done. It would be interesting to see the direction it would take since you can
never tell with open source.

In that case we'll the name to the U.R.E. rig
Userfriendly Rig by Everyone ;-

Just a thaught. Anyone interested.

Good idea - in holidays I try to make new version RIG - and I shall send you for discussion - then it will be possible to place out the best and convenient variant RIG for all
.....
CURE - CommonURE

Thanks for the update, it didn't solve my problem though. I posted a pic in the wip section so you can see my problem.

Thank you so very much , so very generious .

Thanks again,

Mike Cossey

I have just, as promised, added the ability to shrug shoulders to the rig.
Please download it at

http://www.sonofpat.com/sure_rig/Sure_Rig3_Shrug.prj

and give it a try.

I will really like to get some feedback on this one to know whether or not I should include it in the final version of the rig.
I am know in the process of completing the documentation and hopefully the package should be ready in time for the new year.

Thanks a lot for all the work you are putting into this :-)

I have just started playing with it , but I can't get it to shrug just a little.
It seems to be either 0% shrug or 100% shrug. What am I doing wrong? :-(

That's my fault I did not make it clear how to do so.

You must grab the root of the bicep control bone to shrug the shoulder.

Make sure the curser is in the translate mode when you grab or place the bone
in the translate mode by slecting it and pressing the n key.

To get a better feel of it clear the action that opens with the project, then turn
all on the the poses except the IK_Hands and try shrugging with with the arms in the extended position.

Please let me know if it works.

<<Serg2

Good idea - in holidays I try to make new version RIG - and I shall send you for discussion - then it will be possible to place out the best and convenient variant RIG for all>>


Any progress yet. Can't wait to se what you came up with.

he he
I make it
Happy New Year!

great looking rig!! Looks very animatable!!! I'd love to get my hands on that, hehehe