Rig A Multi Stage-Piston | Blender 2.8 - Rigging For Animation 

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Right on! Glad you liked it!

Right on! Glad it was useful!

Thank you :) Glad you liked it!

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it and enjoyed it! For sure check out the files, even my robot rigging tutorial I use this technique on a full character! Thanks again!

@@LevelPixelLevel yep, I went and watched the robot rigging tutorial and loved it. I showed your vids to our lead figure artist and he was amped to watch. Like me, he's not steepped in IK/FK magic, but we're both super interested in it. I'm doing some small animations for fun and this stuff is exactly what I need. I'll join your Patreon for sure.

Good tip! This will help others for sure!

Thanks! Glad you found it useful!

Thank you! Glad you liked and glad that is was clear :)

I used the switch direction feature under the armature menu. docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.80/modeling/surfaces/editing/segments.html In this case, I do not think it would have caused an issue if I just rotated the bone 180 degrees. In other rigs though, it might. Here I am using the position rather than the rotation axis to move things around. The change in rotation just provides a direction for the damped track. I usually use the switch direction option if there is a custom rotation on the bone (ie not locked to one axis), other than that I might just rotate the bone.

For this, I was using an IMac from 2012 (i5). I used that computer for 8 years and never really had a problem with any Blender project. Overall it worked out well.

Thank you! Glad you are enjoying them! For human characters, I would say it depends. If I am designing and building a character and I just want to see it move around I'll use rigify. It is extremely easy to set up to get your character moving around. If I am working on a small project, that only requires a little animation I'll also use rigify. But if I am doing a larger project like a TV show, or a film I prefer to build my own rigs. Usually, I'll be working with the rigs for a couple of months and I want to ensure that the rig works the way I need them to. Also, this allows me to rig to the production. For example: If the show is extremely cartoony I'll spend more time developing toony controls. If the show is more realistic I'll spend more time developing muscle structures and face deformation controls. I'll do a video in the future going into this process in a bit more detail. Great question!

@@LevelPixelLevel Thank you for the detailed answer.Looking forward to your tutorial on this subject.

Hey, thanks! Glad you liked it! For dice, I might actually use a simulation rather than an animation as it would look nicer but if I had to rig it I would add controller in the middle and then add control at each of the corners and parent these to the middle controller. Then I would use my 3D cursor as the pivot and snap it to the corners. With this, I could translate or rotate from the center controller.

That means it is pointing at a mesh object. Make sure the constraint is looking at a rig object.

@@LevelPixelLevel Thank you ! It all worked out at the end, I downloaded your work and just pasted it in my project haha, thank you very much !! That's all I needed :)

@@LevelPixelLevel got similar issue turned out that I clicked at "objects constraint" instead of "bone constraint" below it.

Transformations are great as well I use them all the time! Although, this same method should work for an extendable sleeve rod. This rig does not have any dependencies, you can check this by going to the console: blender.stackexchange.com/questions/23147/how-do-i-get-the-console-on-windows

I missed it too but the important step is at 8:45. I know 2 years old but maybe someone else has this problem.

Check out my full robot rigging guide, it might point you in the right direction: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GKvJKV5fiIU.html

Hey, I sort of review this here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QEUVgS3Ag-g.html And in my longer robot tutorial I talk about that as well: ru-vid.com/group/PLbjn7kaP877v6ByHd-fgek3kOmUYFOzR0