From the course: Maya: Character Rigging

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 24,200 courses taught by industry experts.

Offset Parent Matrix

Offset Parent Matrix - Maya Tutorial

From the course: Maya: Character Rigging

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Offset Parent Matrix

“

- Now we just took a look at how offset nodes can be used to create controllers that can zero out. And if you recall, we go into the outliner here you can see that here, we have, this controller with an offset node. Now the controller itself is all zero values, but if we go to the offset node, you'll see that we have all of the garbage numbers that we needed to put into it, in order to get this to zero out. Now this method of creating offset nodes is pretty standard in most Maya Rigs. Now that is changing with the advent of Maya 2020. Maya 2020 has a new feature, which basically eliminates the need for offset nodes, and it's going to make your rigs much cleaner. And this feature is called an offset parent matrix. Now that's kind of a mouthful, but let me just show you what we have here. So, here I have a second control and a second joint. So I'm going to go ahead and move this control,…

Contents