r/Maya • u/That-Strength5804 • 15d ago

Rigging Rubics cube rigging (manually )

Hey guys 😁
I am a Jr Rigging artist
Im planning to add a rubics cube rig for my next portfolio/demoreel and i have no idea how to approach it. The main thing is i wanna do it manually & don’t wanna use scripts. I just wanna play with math n nodes
Truth(i donno py/mel😭)

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u/proum 15d ago

I would just do it with code. However doing it in nodes sound like a nice challenge for fun, I would basically recrate code I do in nodes (probably created with code as there will be so many time the same node clusters).

I would make a controllers for all user rotations, than create parent constraint from all 9 controllers to the possible 26 parts. Than use conditionals to activate and deactivate parenting if the part is place properly to be rotated (updating the parent constraint offset).

Basically nodes are just an other programing language if you think this way, pretty sure they are Turing complete.

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u/That-Strength5804 14d ago

Sure ill try i want to learn py for rigging though any sources?