I try searching the web but all i can see is tutorial videos and text I have already seen.If you are using an anim pack from a different version than your project, you will need to select the 'Show All Projects' checkbox and then select correct version before being able to add the asset pack If someone knows of a text guide showing in exactly what a good hierarchy of joints looks like, please be kind enough to post it. I done another attempt and the arms look aligned to me:

(It was aligned but the elbows where bent out just slightly as per the maya docs tutorial and others I had seen) I got this response on Maya Forums ( ) but I didnt understand what he meant and when i tried adding what he suggested it failed with orange in the HIK view and said it was not alighed to X-axis I already posted a question here and Maya Forums about the similar issue. Now I'm lost and not sure even how many bones I need and where. I've had multiple problems with my rig mainly from the fact I can't get the Human IK to work fully in Maya (adding IKHandle to leg or arm can work, but the root just moves the character and there is no way for me to make him crouch automatically as I move the body downwards). I am quite sure I have it wrong but have tried many variations of parenting the bones together, and indeed have tried different amounts of bones as some tutorials differ. Upper_back - arm_root - shoulder - elbow - wrist BACK_ROOT - lower_back - upper_back - lower_neck - upper_neck - head.BACK_ROOT - pelvis - hip - knee - ankle - foot - toes.This is how I understood the hierarchy to be: HIPS - UpLeg - Leg - foot - toe - toe_endīut in other examples and guides I read and watched (including the official Maya documentation) the HIPS are not the root.HIPS - spine - chest - shoulders - arm - forearm - hand.Possible structures for the hierarchy might be:. I'm really struggling to make a fully human IK rig for my characters. I want my characters I make in Maya to be fully supported by Mixamo library of animations as well as my own keyframe style animations I intend to make in Maya. I'm confused over which bones are 'root' and how many bones in the spine/pelvis/chest etc. I'm trying to find a quick reference to match Mixamos rigging hierarchy.

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