Reply To: What if you can’t get joints to bend and crease like you want?

Forum Archive What if you can’t get joints to bend and crease like you want? Reply To: What if you can’t get joints to bend and crease like you want?

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Wayne Dixon
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    Hips and shoulders are a real problem area, and the solution depends on the specific model.

    However, here’s some things that can help

    -Good topology is a must, otherwise you’re not going to ever make it look good.

    -Experience helps, you will get better

    -you can add corrective shapes to fix the things you just can’t get working otherwise.

    (but get it as close as you can with straight skinny first)

    -You can try using a lower mesh deformation cage instead of rigging the actual mesh

    This can give better results

    -then try the corrective smooth modifier after the armature modifier in the stack.  Use a vert group to control the problem areas, rather than smoothing the entire model.

    Hope that helps.