Electra Rig H20.5
Film/TV

Learn how the Electra rig was created using pre-built rig components such as full body IK, multi-bone IK, IK/FK blending, reverse foot, spline, blend shapes, delta mush, look at constraints, and mapped constraints. To use these components joints on the character are tagged then the tags are used to place the components on the rig.

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Asset Type
Character Rig
Published
July 8, 2024
Terms of Use
Standard License
Created in
Houdini 20.5
Categories
Character
DOWNLOAD RIG SETUP [6.0 MB]

CREATED BY

esttri
ESTHER TRILSCH

Esther Trilsch is a Senior Character TD at SideFX. She started her career as a character TD apprentice at Walt Disney Animation Studios working on Zootopia, and worked at RiseFX as a Character Supervisor and Pipeline TD. Combining her focus for both the creative side of anatomy and deformation, as well as the technical side of RnD, she found her sweet spot in the building of innovative structures and tools for character workflows.

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COMMENTS

  • youngzo34 8 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Crashes On Load

  • youngzo34 8 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Got it to working sorry.. Turned out i was unable to run 2 houdini sessions at once

  • RemyRylan 8 months, 1 week ago  | 

    Thank you for posting this! I'm confused about the following potential issues when trying to learn from the project to apply it to my own rig:

    1. At `node obj/geo1/electra/set_shape4` the points listed for that group are 55-62, yet there are only 53 points in the entire skeleton.

    2. At `node obj/geo1/electra/set_orientations the groups specificed` are `@name=L_Foot_Tilt_b @name=L_Foot_Tilt_a @name=L_Foot_Heel @name=L_Foot_toe_l @name=R_Foot_Tilt_b @name=R_Foot_Tilt_a @name=R_Foot_Heel @name=R_Foot_toe_r`, but the points in the skeleton do not follow that naming convention. Everything is named with the side lowercased as a suffix instead of an uppercase prefix, such as `upperarm_l`, `hand_l`, `lowerarm_r` and so on.

    Is there something I am overlooking here or are those nodes incorrect?

    • CGToast 7 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

      Hi! Could you please help me on how to find the specified joints in point #2? I can't seem to find them too, and using the rig pose node like you described below isn't helping either. Thanks a lot.

  • RemyRylan 8 months, 1 week ago  | 

    Disregard point #2 I made up there, I figured that one out by dropping a Rig Pose node and investigating. Point #1 is still a mystery though.

  • anon_user_86835697 7 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Just wanted to say that this rig has problems that the test geometry electra doesn't. In scene animate the mirroring doesn't work correctly

    • rmagee 7 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

      We just updated a new one.

  • anon_user_86835697 7 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    I'm still having the same problem with mirroring. example when i select a left leg on the test geometry electra and mirror it tle right leg gets into a mirrored postion . when i do it on this one the left leg snaps on the other side where ther right leg is.

  • MatijaK 4 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    i dig up a little bit and the Mirror with plane or mirror Default works only with the naming convention where the affected controls ends with _l or _r (not at start or middle fo the name) . that is why the multiik dose not produce mirrorable controls as the names don't end with l or r .

  • trideshnik056 2 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    Hello, why doesn't your model have ragdoll, like Elektra, I would like to learn how to add it to a character

  • trideshnik056 2 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    Please add a rag doll, I really need it, thank you

  • Dondini 1 month ago  | 

    Hey all, just getting round to trying KineFX and APEX out with the downloaded file. I'm using 20.5.487 currently. Just transferred from 20.0.653.

    Minor version issue perhaps with loading the Electra file. Seems its trying to look for an attribute on something, thought it might be a QWidget of some sort. Might just be redundant task parms now due to updated nodes perhaps, but any clarification would be helpful.

    Warning: Python error: The attempted operation failed.
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "hou.session", line 3, in <module>
    AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setTextColor'

    /tasks/topnet1/localscheduler:
    Skipping unrecognized parameter "sepparm6".
    Skipping unrecognized parameter "pdg_transfertype".
    Skipping unrecognized parameter "pdg_transferroot".


    Aside from the minor issues above (so far), I havent really had any stumbling blocks, but really liking the concepts and functionality of the APEX system. It feels very flexible. I'm looking forward to getting to the APEX scripting part, but that will follow once the core KineFX/APEX setup is understood.

    Best not run before I can walk.

    Pun intended.

    • Dondini 1 month ago  | 

      Found that the pole vectors were parented as I thought they would be. I tried doing some adjustment animation (waving hand) but the polevector not being specifically parented meant that as the hand rotates, it moves the polevector object as well.

      I just added Main to the povectorparent field in the multiik autorig component and it worked better. I had to delete some keyframes to push the polevector controls out in front, but didnt take long.

      • Dondini 1 month ago  | 

        D'oh, I should have just adjusted the polvecoffset value.

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