ACS4 library is the place where You find custom characters and rigs for ACS4 as well as all other cool additions - have fun!
 
NEW! Timothy Albee's rigs
All "Lightwave3D Character Animation" (by Timothy Albee) readers should be familiar with these great rigs. If You're not - download them, get the book from Wordware and become animator right away! ThinGuy and Msaka rigs are now fully compatible and convertable with ACS4, they work in the exactly same way as the default constructions shipped with ACS4. For more information on how do use these rigs refer to the book. Thanks for letting ACS4 users have fun with Your rigs, Timothy!
ThinGuy_Rig- 7Kb zip, 7Kb zip
A biped rig perfect for human characters. Note that the character model is not included with this download.
Msaka_Rig - 9Kb zip, 9Kb zip
Msaka Rig will be great for biped characters with tails. It also features different feet setup then the one in Thin Guy rig and additional eyes setup. Note that the character model is not included with this download.
 
Comic Girl Rig - 130Kb zip
Download Comic Girl (by William Vaughan) rigged object. This is standard FK Arms ACS4 rig with additional bones added for control of hair. File contains rigged object, converted scene and Motion Mixer motion file with Comic Girl test pose.
 
Soldier Rig - 2.21MB zip
Soldier Rig is based on very cool (and free) character model by Christophe Desse. Rig is modified so it has one more slider allowing for parenting left arm to gun and some handy functions for automatic control of parts of Soldier's uniform. There are low res and hires versions of model included and an example scene. Look for the video below to see how to create this scene.
 
Soldier Rig Video - 6MB DivX 5.01 avi
This video shows Soldier rig in action, see how You can pose character easily. Also, watch simple trick for combining both low res and hi res versions of any model in scene. You still keep good refresh rate while animating and see final model deformation at any time!
 
Weightmaps Reference Skeleton - 2.6Kb zip
Use this special version of ACS4 skeleton for painting weightmaps with Vertex Paint or simply as reference skeleton to see which bones should be considered when weightmapping characters for ACS4. There's readme file written by Paul Mikulecky included explaining on how to use this skeleton.
 
NEW! Character Picker (by Jacobo Barriero) - 98Kb .zip
Amazing addition to ACS4 done by Jacobo. This little plugin allows You to select controls from the custom panel containg all ACS4 controls as well as some other nice functions like direct access to sliders and creating keys for rig items - the usage is self-explanatory. With Character Picker You can animate and pose rig with all controls hidden! Very fast and clean way to work with rig - highly recommended enhancement!
Note: Character Picker has been updated and works with Lightwave 7.5b now!
 
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