Cleaning up the hand joints

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OK. So we have a bit more work to do on the hand.

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If we select the fingers and rotate around the Z axis, they curl

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as you would expect

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if we do the same with the thumb. Now

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you will see that it bends the wrong way.

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We need it to curl in towards the palm and the Z axis is animated.

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So it matches the fingers

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again.

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This means the animator can simply select the controls

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and make a fist using just one attribute.

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So we need to change the thumb orientations,

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select the thumb one joint,

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press the select by component type button.

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Now, right? Click on the question mark icon and select local rotational axis.

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We can now select the axes and edit them manually.

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I'll leave the end one as it looks like we need to reset it. Anyway,

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let's rotate this. So the Z axis points more towards the back

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a little bit more. Maybe.

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OK, let's go back to object mode.

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So now we've changed the orientations manually. We have an issue.

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The translate axis isn't orientated the same way.

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So this needs addressing

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all we need is joint

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minus E

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minus ZSO

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So select this and run it on the selected joints

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there. The transform axis snapped to match the rotational axis,

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let's update the other joints.

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So what we're doing is essentially baking this value onto the joint.

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So it zeros it out and corrects the other axis.

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We don't want any values here because it will cause offset issues in the game engine

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and also affect the rig controls.

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If we select all the fingers and thumb joints, now

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we can rotate around the Z axis and they curl correctly into the palm.

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What we need to do now is reset those end joints.

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