How do I bring a model down to level with the plane?(Animating)

[Bounty228]

Trying to get the wolfs feet level with the ground here. I observed the  "Large power attack" animation and noticed you can bring the whole model down, but cannot figure out how to do it myself.

 

[Bounty228]

Nevermind. Figured out how. Select the specific bone, then go to animation > Bone Tool and turn it off.

[AnubiSs2167]

My advice - dont animate on bones

Donno what animation you want to make but save yourself some pain and use rigs for everything more than playing around.

[Bounty228]

My advice - dont animate on bones

Donno what animation you want to make but save yourself some pain and use rigs for everything more than playing around.

If the bones are what is causing 3DS Max to crash, then I agree.

Fairly new to animating(Obviously), what's rigging?

Alright, this is ridiculous. Everytime I scoot my mouse I am at risk for crashing.

[AnubiSs2167]

Something wrong with max then. But yeah riging allows to animate without touching the bones.

http://www.loverslab.com/topic/36314-3ds-max-skeleton-controller-rigs-draugr-v0132-2015-09-22/

Use this to see how it works. Pornphile has made Human male/female , draugr and wolf/dog rig.

I have made wolf, falmer and bear. They are lying around somwhere on my drive.