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August 2, 2017
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How can I make a stretching arm without stretching its hand

  • August 2, 2017
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Hello,

I'm having some problems, and hope anyone can guide me through them, thank you in advance.

Problems I'm facing:

     1. The arm stretches just fine, but the hands go nuts, I know the arm is doing it, but since it's a simple shape we won't notice it. So how can I make it follow the arm, but in a way that it doesn't stretch along with it;

     2. The sleeves are stretching too. I just want the arm to stretch.

     3. The sleeves are in front of the arm. I can't figure a way out to make the forearm go in front of the sleeve but still be attached to the upper arm.

The scene goes like this:

     - Boy stretches its arm and grab the popcorn [ press C and V for popcorn and upside-down popcorn ]

     - Then he grabs some popcorn and eat it

     - End

I got Pickupbot as an example, but it has the same problem I'm trying to avoid.

Puppet file:

Dropbox - Animeese_CharacterAnimator.puppet

Cheerio.

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Correct answer oksamurai

There's not a great way to prevent stretching like this (yet). The hacky solution is to add a ton of sticks into the hand to try to keep its structure more rigid. But we hope to give users a way to add more control over how stretchy things are in the future.

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oksamurai
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August 3, 2017

There's not a great way to prevent stretching like this (yet). The hacky solution is to add a ton of sticks into the hand to try to keep its structure more rigid. But we hope to give users a way to add more control over how stretchy things are in the future.

cesaartaAuthor
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August 3, 2017

Thanks, Dave, I'll give it a try. Can't wait to see some news soon. Have a nice day.