Very flexible and fast script to generate a bone based skeleton over the 3ds max's biped. Useful for exportation into game engines like Unity or UDK
If you need bones rig, but want to use biped layers and motion captures in 3dsmax, this script is for you!
To start, just create biped, custom it in figure mode to match your character. When done, create a new empty layer, select any bip element, and click on script button. Bones will be created automatically on biped structure.
Features:
- Bones names are Unity3d Engine ready
- Entire skeleton is based on bones that have orientation and position constraints to Bip elements
- Bones that you don't have to "skin" have black and red colors
- All twists are done with look-at constraints
- All elements are created in current layer, so to keep it separated from bip, create a new empty layer for convenience
- After "skinning" your character with new bones, hide or freeze layer with bones and animate your character with biped
Little note; Animate your Bip Character's Hip with Bip001 instead of Bip001 Pelvis, otherwise Spine will separate from Hips, just like with Biped and this will not look good in unity3d.
To install it, copy script to:
"<3ds Max root>\scripts\Startup" folder, then customize your UI or ribbon, you will find it under
#Scripts "BipedTwistsCreator"