Question Smooth Separate Atom Movement

[Wowzerz]

Hi all,

So, I have a scene I'm messing around with where the character lifts a separate CUA (a barbell) to do bicep curls, and a timeline animation to do so. However, I am finding it difficult to match up the movement so it looks fluid and natural. Currently, I have the CUA set to no-collision so there aren't any weird finger collisions going on, but I don't believe this is the best approach.

What is?

I could re-enable collision and maybe try some plugins to make it look smoother, but I don't know. I haven't worked with in-game animation either, but would be willing to try if that would solve it.

 

[atani]

Parent linking to the hands would make the barrel movement follow the hands smoothly.

Atom Control

Atom Control “Isolate Edit This Atom” Opens an Isolated Atom Edit window with options for disabling other atoms in game to make it easier to edit the selected atom. Displays the name of your selected Atom “Freeze Physics: Freezes the physics on all atoms in the scene expect for the one...

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Parenting

Advanced and intuitive keyframe animations for Virt-A-Mate - acidbubbles/vam-timeline

github.com

 

[Wowzerz]

Parent linking to the hands would make the barrel movement follow the hands smoothly.

Atom Control

Atom Control “Isolate Edit This Atom” Opens an Isolated Atom Edit window with options for disabling other atoms in game to make it easier to edit the selected atom. Displays the name of your selected Atom “Freeze Physics: Freezes the physics on all atoms in the scene expect for the one...

hub.virtamate.com

Parenting

Advanced and intuitive keyframe animations for Virt-A-Mate - acidbubbles/vam-timeline

github.com

That does help the bar follow the hands smoothly, but I'm stuck on how to get the bar parented to both hands at once. I tried messing around with an empty atom, connecting the hand controls and what-not, but is there a way to parent link both hands somehow?

 

[atani]

You can't parent to both hands because it would potentially have unsolvable linking, like Lhand goes to the left and Rhand goes to the right, what then?
If one hand is meant to follow the same movement as the other, then link one hand to the other and the bar to any of the hands.

 

[yasparukko]

I'm stuck on how to get the bar parented to both hands at once

Using timeline, you should parent hands to the bar and animate the bar