3D Toolkit - Rigging the Legs Part 1 (10/02/25)

Rigging the Legs Part 1

This lesson, we started creating a basic bipedal character rig that's typically used for a background character.

Select rigging from the drop down menu in the top left. This will change the top drop down menus.

Don't worry about scale as it's possible to scale the rigs

Pelvis Joints

Skeleton > Create Joints Reset Tools (make sure the tool is using defaults)

Starts from pelvis outwards

When placing the joints, make sure you're holding X so they snap to grid. This stops numbers appearing in the scales

The triangular shape in between joints represents the bone

When doing something in between like moving leg, joints wont connect. To connect the joints do:

Mirroring the Leg

Select joint to mirror (hip joint)

Go to Skeleton > Mirror click on the box for options. Pick the YZ and behaviour

You can replace the name of joints by using the search for function. For the legs, we can search for L_ and replace it with R_

Finally, click the mirror option

Creating the IK Handle

Skeleton > Create IK Handle

For the hip, knee and foot select the Rotate Plane option and tick the box for sticky.

For the foot

Select the option single chain and turn off sticky

Use an IK for the ankle to football. Then use a seperate IK for the football to toes.

put one from ankle to football then another from football to toes

You can mirror the IKs

Grouping the IK handles

You can mirror the gorups

Edit > Group (Ctrl G)

Select the group and move the pivot by holding D and V

Group Stabiliser, Hip and Toe

Hold down D and X and move pivot a unit behind heel

Repeat this process for all IKs

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