topic Re: Set floor contact in Human IK in Maya Animation and Rigging Forum

Set floor contact in Human IK

MRAnim8or — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:02:13 GMT

I'm pretty new to Human IK and I'm trying to change the height of the floor plane, or better yet connect an actual plane to HIK so that I can adjust it interactively. I saw this old youtube video, but it looks like the attribute he links to no longer exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9cLzRk-eWY Is there a new way to do this? I can find nothing in the documentation....Human IK seems to be pretty sparsely documented in general. Thanks for your help.

Re: Set floor contact in Human IK

l.newman — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:49:35 GMT

Go to the definition tab then select the blue button, there should now be an option under 'Edit Character definition' > 'Edit HIK properties' 🙂
Hope that helps!

Re: Set floor contact in Human IK

MRAnim8or — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:16:03 GMT

Thanks, I've been to that screen though. Its a pretty big menu, maybe I'm missing where you set the ground plane in it. There's a submenu called Floor Contact, but in it all you can do is turn on Floor Contact and tweak several of the options. As far as I can tell you can't assign a specific nurbs plane as the floor or specify the height of a floor plane.