Adding condition nodes

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We now need some more condition nodes. One for each locator

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just close this.

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And let's duplicate this 13 times

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and let's rename these. So they have the correct control in the name.

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So with these three,

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we will be using them to check if the follow attribute is set to that controls number.

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And if it is

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pass that on to the master condition node,

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this will then switch the correct weight value on and off.

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First, we need our follow attribute again.

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So connect that to each of the condition nodes. First term attributes

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with the cog condition node. We want to check if the first term changes and if it does

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has it changed to the cog option?

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If I change the follow attribute now

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to cog

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and look back at the condition node,

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you will see the first term is now one.

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So we need to set second term to one as well.

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So when these are equal, it will tell the main condition node,

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we want to follow the cog control

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and then that will activate the cog sections weight.

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Let's look at the hip condition node

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and change follow to hips

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first term is now set to two.

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So we need to set second term to match this.

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So it triggers when the animator wants the hand to follow the hips.

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OK. Let's change follow to clavicle now.

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So first term is now three. So add that into the clavicle condition nodes.

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Second term box

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because this is a simple set up, we only need to worry about the first R column here.

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So we just need out color R from each condition node.

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Let's open these first.

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So we need the color if true options here

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from the cog condition node,

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connect out color R to color if true R on the arm space condition node,

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next connect the hips condition nodes out color R attribute

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two color if true G

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and then the clavicle condition nodes out color are attribute

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to color if true B.

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So when one of these condition nodes matches the follow option,

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it will tell the main condition node

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and that will then update the blend matrix node's weight values.

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You can see the boxes here are now yellow,

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which means they are connected to something.

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What we need to do now is change all the color of false attributes to zero.

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So if the follow option isn't one of these,

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it will simply set the weight attributes to zero.

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With this first node, we also want to change the operation to greater than.

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So we are saying if follow is set to an option that is greater than world,

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then return a true value below.

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If I set follower back to world

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first term is now zero.

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So the condition node will be output the false attributes below.

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This will set all the weight values to zero.

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Meaning the hand control stays in world space

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and doesn't follow any of the locators.

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Let's set it to cog now and check it.

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Hm. Ok. This doesn't look right. We should only be getting one value below set to one.

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Let me check the other condition notes.

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Ah right.

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The true value should be one

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and false should be zero.

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So let's just update those.

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That's better

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just the one now.

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So because the first term is now greater than the second term,

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this is the value that will be sent to the weight attribute

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and each of these will change depending on what the follow attribute is set to.

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So you see

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the first is now set to one

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and the others are set to zero. So we deactivated,

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let's change to hips now

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and the first term is now set to two

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and below the one has moved to the second column or the G column.