working on normals / armatures?

Support Animation and Rigging
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OK, I’m pretty new at this, and i was kind of hesitant to ask for help, but i truly have no idea on what to do. I was making a cube stick figure so to speak (pic attached), and i wanted to get it into a walk cycle so to speak. The way i thought would work (the wrong way apparently) was to make normals at the edges of his joints and parent armatures to that as i don’t want to manipulate the actual structure, just the positions using the armatures.

i know there is something called weight paint for bones or something, but i don’t know how it works, would that help me here?

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The Blender wiki should be able to answer your questions and contain tutorials to help.
http://mediawiki.blender.org/

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hy,
blenderart isuue 2 deals with riggin for low poly games and cuzz your charachter is low poly so to speak its a great tutorial for it.

So just take a look at the second issue and read the tutorial.

cheers

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Are those cubes seperate objects? If so, simply parent cube to the right bone.

  • Go into pose mode, Select Cube, Shift select a bone, (Ctrl+P), select “Bone”.