Simple muscle

Last update: 08.03.2017

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Description: This is the simple ICE-based muscle system. It allows you to create muscle primitives and to skin geometry to it with sliding effect. Muscle primitives are very simple. It admit bulge/squash effect and allow spring dynamic. There are no build-in interaction between different muscles.

Download: version 1.0

How to use: Install as usual addon for Softimage. To create muscle primitive you need three nulls: start point, end point and tangent point (like for ik-chain with two bones).

To copy parameters from one muscle mesh to the other use the command "Copy muscle params".

The command "Add rigid skin" allows you to skin a geometry to the muscle mesh.

You can use weightmap for the influence of the skin effect in the ICE-tree of the skin.

The command "Add sliding" works in the similar way.