Using bone.lookat for bones other than head

[Jeff]

I not quite sure how to calculate the exact offsets for all the angles. Farshizzo's on vacation for a little while but I'm sure he'll have some idea when he gets back. Do you only need to do this for the arm bones?

[Gladsomebeast]

Interesting... What will you do with this, omidbrb?

Seems you could get the local bounding box of a bone, find the box face center point that is furthest from the bone origin, compute the angle between the bone's x-axis and the center point of the furthest box face, and rotate that angle difference after the lookat command.

[omidbrb]

Originally Posted by Gladsomebeast

Seems you could get the local bounding box of a bone, find the box face center point that is furthest from the bone origin, compute the angle between the bone's x-axis and the center point of the furthest box face, and rotate that angle difference after the lookat command.

It seems a bit complicated to me but it'll probably work. I'm actually need it to implement Inverse Kinematics for the avatar hand movements. At the moment I'm gathering data using an exhaustive search through a set of discrete possibilities.