@goodgood3d: I've never made a bat wing before so thought I'd try and figure it out for a project I was working on for a friend. At first I tried using the preset rigs in Autorig pro and Rigify, but they're designed for traditional bird wings with feathers so it ended up being a pain to repurpose. In the end I made a simple armature and used cloth simulation to do the rest of the work. I suck at animating - normally relying on mocap whenever I can - but even I managed to create something that looks half decent. The great thing about using a cloth simulation is that you can also use forces to add more realism with minimal effort. I added basic constraints as I was working to make certain movements easier and there's still more I'd like to add. Here’s how I made this: Extruded a mesh plain in the shape of a classic bat wing, then added a subdivision modifier, creasing the main edges to fix those round corners. Then duplicated the edges along each bone, separated by selection and added a skin and subdivision modifier to create the geometry. Then I used sculpt mode to add form to the arm and added an armature with bones for the spine, arm and fingers. Then I parented everything to the armature with the automatic weights, and did a manual weight paint. And for more realistic deformations, I used cloth modifier with self collisions enabled. Then to attach it to the rig, I added vertices along the armature to a pin group, so when I hit play, I get real time cloth simulation. To add tension to the wing, I increased the shrinking factor under the shape tab. To make it easier to use, I added follow rotation constraints for curving and opening the wing. Finished things off with custom shapes for the main control bones. #b3d #blendercommunity #blender3d #blenderart #blenderartist #rigging #wings

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