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[Solved] EPIC_Hydraulic_01 question

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#1

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I have a spaceship I am rigging for a Star Fighter type game. The landing gears are these hydrawulic legs that descend from the body in a straight line. I used the EPIC_Hydraulic_01 component which works very nicely.

That said, I can’t seem to get an IK to work with this component. I am getting a cycleCheck warning. We want the ship to be able to touch down and then settle onto the legs with the leg foot IKed to the ground.
Any advice?

#2

Solution was super simple. Sometimes I just need to post a question to the world wide web for my brain to start churning. I think in my initial testing I parented things in the wrong order and that’s why I was getting the cycle warning.

def rig_leg_ik(self, side):
    jnts = [f'leg_{side}0_section_01_jnt', f'leg_{side}0_section_02_jnt']
    legTip = pm.PyNode(f'leg_{side}0_tip_ctl')

    name = f'{side}LegIkHandle'
    primitive.addIkHandle(legTip, name, jnts, solver="ikSCsolver", poleV=None)
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