Joints rotation

[Anonymous]

As i understood, it is important fot animation that your z axes for left hip look to the right and y to the back. If i put joints that way, then, when i rotate hip on z axes, it goes back on positive values and forward on negative, but must be the opposite way.  If i put joints so, that the hip rotates on z axes on the right way, then my z axes looks to the left and y looks forward. Can i fix it somehow?..

[Calebos]

Hi,

 by default it does not matter what orientation you have on bones in Maya. The bone itself is pricipially point(it is so called joint) so you can aim the front/up axis to any direction. JUST keep the same orientation for all child bones so if you rotate them with handles in forward kinematic mode the rotations are consistent so, just for example: one or more joints will not rotate in different irection then hip joint.

 If you want to have rotations symetrised, use Skeleton: mirror joints with Behaviour option tagged.

[mcmxcvimus]

Hey,

it doesn't really matter but in a similar problem I had I simply unparented all my joints, then switched to zero all orientations and then parented them back again, so all joints where switched back to world axis, with Y axis facing upwards.

I hope this helps,

Alex.