Attaching bones?

[Son of Kong]

Attaching bones?

Greetings all. I'm aware that in Cheetah 3d to assign bones to an object it has to be 'ONE' object.... BUT! I've sent a picture of one of my cartoon characters and next to it is a model made in Cheetah? The thing is the model is made up of different objects. Can bones be attached to this model even tho' it's not a single object. If it can, it would save a lot of time making up a figure!!!!

 

[novolume]

The quick answer is yes. Put all the elements of your character into a folder.

 

[Son of Kong]

Many thanks Novolume! I'm breathing a long sigh of relief at this ... but I'm not sure about how do go about doing this. Could you please advise:smile:

 

[novolume]

It's not really my area of expertise, TerryG or Filip C would probably be better placed to help on this one.

 

[podperson]

I you want the figure to be inflexible, you can parent each piece to a bone. Otherwise you can either attach a skeleton tag to each piece and then drag the relevant bones to it (note that the skeleton tag only works on editable meshes).

In the end, you probably do want to make it into a single mesh, except for props and clothing.

 

[uncle808us]

The quick answer is yes. Put all the elements of your character into a folder.

I put my separate meshes into a folder but cannot add a skeleton tag to the folder, so how does this answer work?

 

[ZooHead]

No Skeleton Tag needed but you get no flex/interaction at the joints.
Great for robots.

 

[uncle808us]

Ahh. Thank you Zoo.

 

[ZooHead]

My pleasure, I hope you're staying safe.

 

[uncle808us]

Right back at you, the only difficulty I'm having is typing while six feet away from my computer. and talking on my cell phone from six feet away.