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#Puppeteer… How Good?

    14-Aug-95 14:47:53
Sb: #Puppeteer… How Good?
Fm: Brendan Gallagher 73004,1033
To: All
Folks, I'm on my annual fall spendathon and I have a question for anyone who is familar with or uses Puppeteer in their work. I find the IK module in R4 very unfriendly and unintuitive to use for character stuff. But I definately want to use the IK method of animating. At this time I don't have access to motion capture although who know in the future. How much better (if at all) is Puppeteer as an IK solution ? I intend to use it with Bones PRo to animate single piece meshes that are created with a Metaball program (OrganiX). Or can the latest version handle single piece meshes itself ? Is the latest version as 'Buggy' as the original version ? Can it do hand/finger or foot animations ? It seemed from the demo on the Schreiber Disk that this could not be done. Any informed opinions will go a long way …….. Brendan G.