Hi Cineversity-Forum!
I have some trouble solving an issue with combining an IK-Rig with MoSpline.
My task: animating the installation of an insulation collar (for pipes).
In Pic 1 you see the plain model of the collar and the pipe in front view. My first approach was using spline-wrap combined with MoSpline for bending the model evenly curved around the pipe. This works fine but as you can see in Pic 2, there is some distortion going on on the mesh (screw holes). I’ve tried working with restriction/weighting but that doesn’t fix anything. My second approach was an IK-Rig (see Pic 4 - only a quick test) with weighting the screw holes and this works. With a little expresso I attached the IK-Goal to the end point of the MoSpline.
But the very last thing I was not able to solve (wether deep digging the whole net for a solution) is, how to bend the IK-Rig evenly curved following the curvature of the MoSpline (see Pic 4).
Any hints and tipps highly welcome! Or maybe there’s another way doing this (or something similar) with an other technique?
1000 thanks in advance for your help/feedback!
Sunny regards, Tom