R6 rig inverse kinematics

[ReelPlum (Plum)]

So im trying to make a r6 rig with procedual walk animations (Maybe more to come).

I kinda understand Inverse Kinematics (Heres some good tutorials: here and here)

But my problem is to get it on the r6 body. I dont understand how the motor6d works. Does anyone know a good Motor6d tutorial?

[movezie]

I know this is kind of weird and i hope this can answer the problem, since i know a bit on Motor6D, but I know Motor6D most well on R15, however R6 is just slightly different but that is in terms of naming.

You most likely already gone on Roblox API reference for Motor6D, so i’ll give you the way i learned Motor6D, and that was through reading devfourm questions.

Here are some great articles answering motor6d questions and problems, and i took these so i could make a script where r15 arms and head followed the mouse cursor.

Links here:

R15 Equivalent of the Neck, Left Shoulder and Right Shoulder?

Trying to convert this script that makes my character follow the mouse but it’s only compatible with R6. I tried changing the variable “Neck” to “NeckAttachment” as that was the only thing I could find that was related to the neck but I get the error message “CO is not a member of Attachment” on line 19 (which I have marked). local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:wait() ; Character = Player.Character local Torso = Character:Wait…

How would I make a Motor6D point somewhere?

For hours i’ve been trying to figure out how to make the RightShoulder Motor6D point at the mouse without any success. Anyone knows how to do that? Here’s the line of code I currently have: Character.RightUpperArm.RightShoulder.C0=cf(WeaponsVariables.RightArmC0.p,WeaponsVariables.RightArmC0.p+(Mouse.Hit.p-Character.RightUpperArm.Position).unit)*angles(math.pi/2,0,0) When I spawn and I don’t move, it works fine but if I rotate or move, it doesn’t work correctly anymore.

sorry i’m a little bit new here, but i learned a bit about Motor6D from here, hope this helped.

[LMH_Hutch (Hutch)]

If you wanted to directly adapt my tutorial you could just modify the solve function to not include any angles and only return the planeCF. The right shoulder on an R6 rig is the same as on an R15 one so you’d just set the shoulder based on the planeCF and exclude the additional angle setting the R15 version would require.

It’d look pretty rough but it would work. I’d recommend coming up with a way to lower the shoulder position based on how close the target is to try and mimic some kind of elbow bend. There is a lot of stylistic choice here with how you want to adapt that.

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As far as a Motor6D tl;dr goes:

• Part0 is the “base” part of the joint
• Part1 is the “attached” part of the joint
• C0 is the CFrame offset from the orientation of Part0
• C1 is the CFrame offset from the orientation of Part1

A very common way of using the C0 and C1 value is to think of them as:

• C1 is a hard offset from a rotation point
• C0 is rotation point or “home” position

Our shoulder should rotate around that green dot. In order to set where that green dot should be we’d set the C0 cframe since it’s what will anchor us to the Torso/Part0. We just move it up and over.

Now without any C1 set the center of our Part1 is where that green dot would be. To fix that we offset the Part1 with the C1 property to put it into the position we want. Moving it down and over.

What you end up with is a stable “anchor point” as your C0 allowing you to rotate it around the point as like:

local shoulderC0Save = shoulderMotor6D.C0

while wait() do
	-- start with our base, add the transformation (a spin in this example)
	shoulderMotor6D.C0 = shoulderC0Save * CFrame.Angles(tick(), 0, 0) 
end

[ReelPlum (Plum)]

Ok. So i have some questions.

I cant get it to work. The arm is not pointing at the goal. Its pointing over the goal or just up in the air?

Heres my code

Heres my code:

Solver

Execution code

Place

InverseKinematicsR6.rbxl (15.8 KB)

Am i doing something wrong?

[LMH_Hutch (Hutch)]

Been a while since I worked with R6 but I remember now that it has some funky rotations attached to the joints. Because of those rotations they end up throwing off the shoulder CF for the Ik solve.

The IK solve is fine though, but since it’s R6 is can be simplified a little more.

local Ik = {}

function Ik:solveIK(originCF, targetPos, armLength)	

	local localized = originCF:pointToObjectSpace(targetPos)
	local localizedUnit = localized.unit
	local l3 = localized.magnitude
	
	local axis = Vector3.new(0, 0, -1):Cross(localizedUnit)
	local angle = math.acos(-localizedUnit.Z)
	local planeCF = originCF * CFrame.fromAxisAngle(axis, angle)
	
	if l3 < armLength then
		return planeCF * CFrame.new(0, 0, armLength - l3)
	else
		return planeCF
	end
end

return Ik

and the only changed I made to that main script are some of the run time code

local function cleanRotation(joint)
	joint.C0 = CFrame.new(joint.C0.p)
	joint.C1 = CFrame.new(joint.C1.p)
end

cleanRotation(rightShoulder)

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local SHOULDER_C0_CACHE		= rightShoulder.C0
local ARM_LENGTH			= RightArm.Size.Y - 0.5

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runService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
	local shoulderCFrame = Torso.CFrame * SHOULDER_C0_CACHE
	local goalPosition = goalPart.Position	
	
	local planeCF = solveIK:solveIK(shoulderCFrame, goalPosition, ARM_LENGTH)
	local correction = CFrame.Angles(math.pi/2, 0, 0)
	
	rightShoulder.C0 = Torso.CFrame:toObjectSpace(planeCF * correction)
end)

runService.Stepped:Connect(function()
	rightShoulder.Transform = CFrame.new()
end)

but that should work better. The IK is designed to have the “front” face of the part aim towards the goal and since we want the bottom (the hand) to face it then you just need that added rotation.