Each muscle you create using the Muscle Creator is constrained to two separate attach locators on each end. These locators are parented to the joints you specified when you first created the muscle. You can move these locators to better represent your muscle mass and shape. Here, you adjust them so that the muscle surface wraps around the front leg.
This scene contains the sabertooth tiger with capsulated bones and a front leg muscle, which has been set in all three pose states.
The lower part of the Edit tab lists all the different cross section controls and attach points available for the selected muscle.
This selects both end locators of your leg muscle.
Notice that the muscle surface stretches to compensate for the new locators’ positions.
Notice that each cross section control along the muscle surface individually rotates to compensate for the new locators’ positions.
In this lesson you learned how to better shape your muscle by adjusting its attach locators. A completed file for this lesson, Sabertooth_Edit_Muscle_Locators_End.mb, can be found in the sample directory. Now you are ready to adjust the length and shape of the muscle surface.