Inverse Kinematics and bone deformer combining

Harmony Harmony General Discussion
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Hi, I’m trying to make a rig where arms, legs and feet use bone or curve deformers but like to be able to use inverse kinematics. Especially to use the nails system when animating a walk cycle for example.

When using forward kinematics the joints of upperarm/lowerarm blend nicely in each other. (see attachment-1)
But with inverse kinematics I can only do cut-out style where the joints break. (see attachment-2)
I tried using the glue node but didn’t get a very good result.

Also, when using IK to pose the character, the bones don’t follow, so switching back to FK the deform-rig has become useless…(see attachment-3)

Is there no way of using both systems at the same time?

Thanks in advance

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IK currently doesn’t work when using deformation tools.

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Thanks rkriz,

Too bad, I’ll find another solution… like creating duplicate legs, one rigged top down the other inverse

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Hi Pieter,

your mentioned method is the current way it works. And it works quite well as deformers switch with the image swap.

Best regards