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hey, first ever post.   

i have daz studio 4.5, and i have seen videos around where two figures are fighting, or grabbing, and the hands stay perfectly gripped on to the other figure, how is this done? do i parent one figures hand to the other arm or something? i cant get a figures hands to grip another figure solidly. any advice?

noved123 - 07 October 2012 09:39 PM

hey, first ever post.   

i have daz studio 4.5, and i have seen videos around where two figures are fighting, or grabbing, and the hands stay perfectly gripped on to the other figure, how is this done? do i parent one figures hand to the other arm or something? i cant get a figures hands to grip another figure solidly. any advice?

I have not heard of a way in DS 4.5 - sorry .
Maybe in DS 5 - but who knows .

Casual has a script for that somewhere on the forum

Hi

You should be able to create a “null” object,. and have the hands follow that Null,.. (point at)
you can have several objects (pointing at) the same Null object.

However,.. this doesn’t mean you don’t need to do some animation key-frame work. the “Null” or “target” object is just a helper device
Null objects in the scene don’t render.

Creating a fight scene is probably one of the most difficult animations to do. so, if you’re new to animating, or new to 3D in general, then I’d suggest working on some simpler animations to get you up to speed with the tools, principles, program functions and options for animating.

Hope it helps

mjcHoldon on this site

super program for what you want to do -
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=13581855

there’s my free scripts, which i use in almost all my animations  

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjautolimb

and

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjkeeporient

and

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcjholdo

note that basically all the animation-related scriopts on my site which are marked for DazStudio 3 also work with DazStudio 4