VERY nice, really smooth too. I fave

wow, new record, first comment in under a minute
thanks dude

no problem hun, really sexy abs btw, *hugs*

sexxy.

question: Muscle simulation or just clever skin weighting? :)

just skin weighting :)
i still cant find a good muscle sim software that i like

by "like" i mean "can afford" ;)

there is a free one I ran across somewhere, but screw that.

I think you're on max right?
I don't know how one could do it there but there are ways (in maya) like building dummy-muscles and binding the skin to those afterwards.

PS: I miss the physique modifier from max ~.~

Yeah, i'm using 3ds Max,
For muscles is just use stretchy bones and make them transform using a squash method so that they buldge based on the rotation angle of a bone (ie, forearm rotation for the bicept, shin rotation for the thigh/calf, etc). then it is just a matter of skinning them - so it sounds pretty familiar to your method.

Never really used Physique, i dont use the biped rigs anymore.can it work on the vertex level becuase all i could see was the envelopes.

hehe, first off, I have no idea how the stretchy bones in max work. But it sounds a lot like driving a blendshape/morph target of a muscle by it's accompanying joint rotation. Ah, driven keys are great :)

As far as I know the physique thing works on vertex level. At least I was able to paint it's weights down to vertex precision, back a year or more ago, when I used max.

another thing that came to my mind: how well does that binding work with twisting and turning?

oh and before I forget it: very nice work, simply thumbs up :) Hehe, I get so carried away that I forget what I wanted to say in the first place :)

good question, it seems to work ok - the back just needs a little more tuning - a new version will be up in a couple of minutes

I hope it works. I've had it more than once that a skin weighting that looked perfect on the stomach while crunching, blissfully fell apart when trying to twist it.

the back looks ok from what i have seen so far, although there are still a few more poses that it need to go through before being finished - still rendering ;)

in regards to physique - they built it into max shortly after i started learning how to use skin, so it was a choice between the two and since i had at the time no idea how to use the biped system, physique got left behind.

I pretty much only looked at physique, but shortly after that I decided to go with maya, so my own knowledge is rather limited there.

Do show the back too when it's done :) (although I'll probably not be around for some time to comment)

Superb work there :)

Nice :)