How to create multiple toes on the foot?

[horatiob]

Hey!

I’m trying out mgear for the first time to rig a model of a bear’s skeleton. I was wondering how you would go about creating the toes/ fingers for the paws along with the foot roll guides?

I’m also wondering how to create the guides for the spine if I want a bone for each vertebrae of spine and also for the neck?

Cheers!

[Jerome]

Hello @horatiob and welcome to the forum.

I would say that one of the first thing to do when using starting mGear is to take the guide manager and create a component for each one that that comes with Shifter (classic components) and build those and analyze the differences between them and specially their behavior. This will already get you a good idea of what you need and what actually is in there. I always tell my students that mGear is like ingredients in a kitchen and it is up to you to build your recipe… I know this is silly

The Foot component has options in order to choose how many rolling joints you want to use. Then you can build your toes with another component like simple chains… It is up to you really.

Lastly I recommend that you search posts on this forum because some other people might have already ask the same question. I can point you to this 3 posts.

Footroll tears fingers from ankle

Hi people. This link above contains a file I am struggling with. For a frontpaw of a dragon I am trying to set up a foot_bck_01 with two sections. Fingers are also set up. I have attached them in the guide to the root of the footguide. When building the rig, the bones turn out to originate much deeper in the paw, and behave very much unwanted when manipulating the ctl’s. Especialy when using the bk1_ctl, the inpaw-fingers are getting teared off the actual joint-ankle… Is this fixable? Thank…

Foot roll settings

Hi! I’m new to Mgear and i’m looking for a way to modify the foot roll settings. My character has very long feet and needs a higher foot break angle. Is there a way to modify that? I did some digging in the node editor but was too scared to break of maya… Thanks for the help (sorry for my English, I’m trying my best to speek clearly)

Setting the foot rig for a hiking boot

Hi all. I’m beginning my mGear learning, and my first biped is a guy with hiking boots on which have the typical default toe lifted default shape. This is confusing me as the guides normally should be on the floor, at the tip of the shoe, but the shoe tip floats quite a distance above the floor. I could leave the front foot locator at the tip on the floor, but would need to counter animate all the time, and if it was at the higher position, the foot would rotate above the floor… Any suggestions…

This 3 posts explain some of the (extra) manipulations you might need to do to setup a pawn type of system with mgear.

Hope this helps you.
Cheers

[horatiob]

Thank you for responding!

I will try what you said and do some more testing with the guide manager,

I did see some of these posts before hand - I don’t suppose you still have that video you sent in the first one, so that I could check it out myself to see if there’s anything I could learn from it? If not, no worries!
Cheers.

[Jerome]

I still have the video yes. Here’s a new link for it.
By the way this was done on the rig that was sent to me by @mackerB so not everything might apply to yours.

offset_fk.mp4

[horatiob]

That’s okay - I think I might be starting to get somewhere with it.
Thanks!