Rig it Right – chapter 3 Answer

This is to answer the following reader question for Chapter 3:

“I’m stuck on chapter 3 connecting the bend2 via the node editor. I can’t find a node for bend2, just one called “nonlinear” that seems to match it, but the relevant controls aren’t there (I’m very new to the node editor)”

I hope I can answer this and get you clicking in the right direction. In the picture above, I’ve downloaded the chpt3_Toothbrush_InProgress file. I’m looking for the bend 2.

Click on the toothbrush since it has the bend deformer applied. We can see the applied deformers in the channel box under the Shapes area. If nothing shows up here — the deformers haven’t been applied.If you see the desired bend2 node there, then you can click on the name. This selects it.In the node editor click on the “Add Selected Nodes to Graph” buttonThere is the bend 2 node. Not shown – if you select that node you’ll see it’s attributes in the channel’s box. Also if you hit “4” on the keyboard the node will open up and show the attributes too.

Best of luck and Happy Rigging!

…tina