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make posable puppet in as3, the simple way

Even thou Inverse Kinematics are neat and spectacular, they are also very complex unless you are good at trigonometry. A simpler way to achieve a “posable” puppet is to make a graphic element that will rotate around a pivot point. Then, attach another graphic element to the first one that has its own pivot point and repeat as many times as necessary.

Take this example:

source for pivottest

Basic as3 IK puppet skeleton (2)

Adding some constrains and making some points “fixed” is possible to create something close to a posable puppet. It’s also possible to store pre-set positions for later use.

source for iktestpuppet2

Basic as3 IK puppet skeleton

This is a basic “humanoid” puppet using the IKMember from this post.

Even thou it works more or less for what i want, a lot of limitations are evident: setting different distances betweens different neighbor anchor points or making some of them static

source here : IKTestPuppet #1

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