Pole target issue

Support Animation and Rigging
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I’m having some trouble with pole target. When I add a pole target, the armature doesn’t bend the joints toward the main target anymore - instead it just rotates the first bone.

edit:

this was due to the armature being 100% straight. You need to put a small angle in the hierarchy.

Attachments

pole_target.zip (66.4 KB)

2

Pole target assists primary IK target in bend direction. In your model, all you have is the pole target. You need IK target.

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There is an IK target there. The problem was because armature was 100% straight. You can easily see this if you go to edit mode and rotate any bone just a little bit, the bone will immediately snap to the IK target when you exit edit.