The red tells the definition of the skeleton is not valid. The green means all the bones are linked successfully and the yellow means a bone is out of position. I recommend this way to ease the task.īy the way, you might have noticed a red ‘signal’ in the top-right corner of the Definition tab.

In this same way, you can set the fingers, the spine and so on. The parts mirrored when setting the skeleton and the skin weight will be linked to the Human IK skeleton automatically by linking just one side. In this way, you can link the skeleton of the model to the HumanIK skeleton. ③ With ② selected, right-click on it and select ‘Assign Selected Bone’.

② Click the centre of the waist of the Human IK skeleton. ① Click the centre of the waist of the model skeleton.

Link each position on the human model to the corresponding position of the HumanIK Skelton on the Definition tab. In Human IK, at least 15 bones are to be defined. Rename the character by the Attribute Editor. By the way, to set the ‘Human’ kinematics, it’s handy to change the skeleton to the ‘T’ pose as shown above if you have set the skeleton and the skin weight with the ‘A’ pose. In that window, we set the IK on the ‘Definition’ tab. It opens the Character Control window on the right side of the screen. Skelton > Human IK (Alternatively, press the human icon on the top bar.) In the same way, create an IK handle for the arm. It means the joints are adjusted so that the last joint reaches the target position by an inverse calculation. The joints bend automatically by moving the ‘ikHandle1’ with the Move Tool. Then, ‘ikHandle1’ is created in the Outliner window. You can access it by slecting ‘Skelton>Human IK’.Ĭlick them in this order. Human IK: The tool to set the IK, which is available in Maya2015 by default. IK(Inverse Kinematics): the way to pose a skeleton by moving the last joint of a joint chain such as hand, foot, etc. FK(Foward Kinematics): the way to pose a skeleton by rotating individual joints.

Maya human model