Maya - Character Skeleton - Standard practice?
polycounter lvl 4
Hello!
I've noticed a gap in my knowledge about character rigging and common practice for in game characters and I don't really know where else to pose the question.
I'm curious why in most character rigs there are bones going from the root to the ankles as well as from the root to the primary hand. I've done a lot of searching around trying to find out what it's called but it always is omitted like it's just common practice and everyone should know why it's done already lol.
That's an example from UE4's documentation.
I already have my fully realized character as seen below, and i've already got a decent skeleton hierarchy set up for our in game needs, but I'm just trying to find out if this is absolutely necessary or if it actually makes things easier.
I've noticed a gap in my knowledge about character rigging and common practice for in game characters and I don't really know where else to pose the question.
I'm curious why in most character rigs there are bones going from the root to the ankles as well as from the root to the primary hand. I've done a lot of searching around trying to find out what it's called but it always is omitted like it's just common practice and everyone should know why it's done already lol.
That's an example from UE4's documentation.
I already have my fully realized character as seen below, and i've already got a decent skeleton hierarchy set up for our in game needs, but I'm just trying to find out if this is absolutely necessary or if it actually makes things easier.
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There was a presentation with the Fortnite developers talking about their animation workflow. Should be on Epic's Twitch and Youtube channels.