Now let's go to step three, which is user adjustment of guides. And so I'm going to set it to R so I don't accidentally select the mesh. Now, for some reason this character's not in there so I'm going to go ahead and do an add selected objects, make sure that geometry is there. So I'm going to go to this geometry layer, let's go ahead and turn that on. So I'm going to hop over to my channel box and let's go ahead and freeze the mesh so that we don't accidentally work with it.

Now what this does is it creates a number of what are called guides. And do we want a node for hip translation? I'm going to keep that off. Then down the center, how many spine, neck and clavicle joints? I'm going to leave those at the default. And then we also have what are called guide settings, so how are we determining symmetry? Well, this character is very symmetrical? So we could do bounding box or you could use the hips as a center line in case your characters is not asymmetrical. But we're going to leave this on imperfect mesh. There's also polygon soup, which will try and correct some problems. But if you didn't have that, you could select either perfect or watertight mesh.

So it's not a perfect watertight mesh, so his eyes are open there and so it's slightly imperfect. Now I'm on imperfect mesh and the reason I'm doing that is because the character has some holes. So we have a couple of what are called embed methods. So this will guide the placement of the joints in the character. And then the second thing we need to do is create some guides. So we're going to select our mesh, hit plus and that brings in that geometry. So the first thing we need to do is add in our geometry.

So I'm going to hit the plus sign here and that creates a HumanIK character definition, and this is how we are going to rig the character. Now, when we Quick Rig a character we do need to create a character definition. But I find that it's a lot better if you give it a little bit more information, so I'm going to click over to step by step. Now, if you press auto rig here it will try to rig the character. So if I bring that up you'll see at the beginning it basically just has one button. So if we go onto our rigging menu under skeleton, you'll see, we have Quick Rigs. So let's take a look at how this works, I have a simple mesh and let's go ahead and rig it. And for that, Maya has a tool called Quick Rig, and it's a great way to rig characters for HumanIK and all sorts of stuff.

There are times when you just need to rig a character quickly.

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