Adobe Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Intro to Inverse Kinematics

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The Mystery of IK Instance Naming

Anatomy of an Armature

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You can control movement at a head point in various ways: you can allow full rotation (the

default), prevent rotation completely, or limit rotation to create a joint that bends in one

direction, like an elbow or a knee; you can prevent (the default), allow, or limit horizontal

and vertical movement (known as x- and y-translation). You cannot control movement at a

tail point. In a linear armature, most of the joints containing a tail point also contain a head

point; you can constrain the joint by constraining the head.  e symbol instance that comes ...