{"id":302,"date":"2020-10-11T15:58:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/?p=302"},"modified":"2022-09-15T09:10:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:10:02","slug":"using-the-andy-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/autodesk-maya\/using-the-andy-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Andy Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Download the Andy Zip File (available through <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.highend3d.com\/maya\/downloads\/character-rigs\/c\/the-andy-rig-for-maya\" target=\"_blank\">HighEnd3D<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/monmouth.desire2learn.com\/d2l\/home\" target=\"_blank\">eCampus<\/a>) and unzip onto your hard drive. Set your project to the unzipped directory, and all should work well. If you want to use the Andy rig in another project folder, make sure to copy and merge all the project sub-directories, especially the &#8220;source images&#8221; folder, to your project directory directory, otherwise our poor Andy will loose his \/ her textures and turn completely black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTE: Andy, and many other free rigs, do not evaluate properly in newer versions of Maya (like 2023, maybe even 2016+) unless you change the evaluation mode back to DC &#8211; see video below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The basic features of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creativecrash.com\/maya\/downloads\/character-rigs\/c\/the-andy-rig\">Andy Rig<\/a> are explained in this video I created:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Andy Rig - Basic Features\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mkkYqONLdYQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>The Any Rig &#8211; Basic Features<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I apologize for the occasional hiss in the background, that is just my pet dragon dreaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using Andy in newer version of Maya (2023+)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The default <strong>Evaluation Mode<\/strong> has changed to parallel and needs to be set back to <strong>DC<\/strong> for this, and many other free rigs, to properly work. This can be done in<strong> Preferences > Settings > Animation > Evaluation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a video by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsoEtGn1LPgIomxHu3ppBuQ\">Sai Srikanth Charepalli<\/a> showing how:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Changing Evaluation Mode in Maya 2016 and Fixing Mery Rig\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K3noWzWS0TQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to use the Andy Rig.<br \/>\nThe basic features of the Andy Rig are explained in a video.:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,85,14,3,15],"tags":[53,27],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-78","category-3d-computer","category-animation","category-autodesk-maya","category-rigging","tag-andy","tag-instruction-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}