Does Director recognize IK chains?

[waterpearl]

Hello;

does Director recognize IK chains set up in LW?

Thank you.

Katja

[MentalFish]

ShockWave itself does not support IK, but it does support parenting of bones and if you have used IK inside of LW to create an animation it will ofcourse export with the keyframes as you have positioned / rotated the bones

[mdoyle]

I have managed to create quite complex character animations from lightwave to shockwave using Ik in a round about way. As patterns said it does not export Ik directly but for a good character animation it is always easier to animate and in lightwave using goal targets, ik etc. Just to forewarn if you like to use this kind of setup that every bone needs to a have a rotational value and when you use Ik and goals some bones are not technically getting rotated for shockwave to pick it up and baking keyframes will not work either. There is work arounds which I could help with if you need more help.