Feature request: IK for limb positioning in edit constraints mode?

[andvaribekho]

Hi,

I’ve been using the tool for a bit and overall I find it very promising. However, I’m not sure if I might be missing something, but I haven’t been able to use IK to position limbs in Edit Constraints mode.

I understand this isn’t a minor feature, but having IK controls would make the tool significantly more accessible for artists. Creating poses by rotating individual bones, instead of being able to directly manipulate limbs with IK, can be quite cumbersome.

It’s possible that this is not the intended use case and that the tool is primarily designed for training humanoid robots. Still, I wanted to ask in case this functionality exists or is planned.

Thanks in advance!

[davrempe]

Hi @andvaribekho, you are correct the demo currently only supports FK posing. We do not currently plan to add an IK posing system, but I will leave this issue open in case we (or someone else) can get to it in the future.

To provide some motivation: the goal of the demo was to demonstrate the model capabilities and provide a reference implementation for how the model could be used in an animation application. The Kimodo demo is far from a fully-featured animation tool, and we hope that animators and artists can take this example as a template to incorporate the model into their own preferred workflow (e.g. Blender, Maya, Houdini, etc..)