Building the spine controls

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So all the set up is done. Now

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we have the controls and the control joints have been added.

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So let's now build the main systems that are going to drive the spine

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for this character. We're going to give the animator, both IK and FK controls.

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But with the IK version, we are going to use Spline IK

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because we are now adding the FK option.

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I decided to include some extra FK controls here.

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These are set up just like the other FK controls

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so we can animate them all to get some nice poses.

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OK. Let's hide all the controls apart from the spine. Now,

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we can also hide the main skeleton too.

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So all we can see here are the control joints.

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First, let's organize the controls,

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parent the shoulder control to the chest control

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and then the chest control to the lower spine control.

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Now parent the hip, lower spine,

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head, neck and Pelvis FK controls to the cog control.

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So everything will move with the cog.

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Next, let's clean up the values

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we can do this as we have been before by

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simply moving the values down to the offset parent matrix section

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and then resetting them

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or you can use the supplied script like I'm going to do

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to speed things up.

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Ok. That's done.