Connecting the Upper arms problem: please help(Solved)

[Kissang_Cablayda]

Okay, I think I made my lamp far too complicated So, I have done rigging and constraining the lower arms of the lamp. however, I do not know how to connect the two upper arms. I do not know how or where to parent the middle plate/joint. Is it possible to have two parents for one bone? Can one object parent two bones? or should I reconstruct my bones arrangement? I’ve been circling this issue for hours and couldn’t find for a solution, so I’m not sure if this is possible.

I have added a video here. I hope you can see my problem. I really want to push through with this design, but if it’s not possible. I’ll just redo it again from the start (sigh)
I guess I went to far out of the topic. But I just really want to learn by exploring things. Would be extremely grateful if anyone can see this post or for anyone who could help me

Video here:

Rigging Problem

Screenshot:

Here’s the lamp I want to copy:

Here’s the part I don’t know how to rig:

[NixeKnox]

There was another who had a similar lamp to your’s who didn’t know how to rig it. I dug up the thread for you.

Different lamp design, cannot follow unless I merge bones (?)

So I decided to do my own lamp design as the course suggested in the draft part, and ended up with this type of lamp: https://puu.sh/wXRzK/c870599e60.png Now, as you can imediately see, I cannot just make a bone and be done with it, there are two separate arms that end into one piece, meaning two bones that then join into one. How do I do this?

Here’s another that might help too.

Help with rigging a different kind of stem joint

I know I was probably going to get in trouble when I decided to try a different lamp design but I guess this is good for learning too! Hopefuly someone here can… shed some light on the issue So this is my lamp. As you can see in the image below, instead of using a ball as a joint my lamp uses a ‘side to side’ wood strip. [lamp2] So when creating the armature I came across a problem that I tried to illustrate in the image below. Since the wood strips or stems are not aligned, how shou…

It really depends on how you want that joint to move. It its not to move independently then join it to another part of the lamp. If it is to move independently I would parent the two bones on offset to the bone the joint will be parented to and see how that works out.

[Kissang_Cablayda]

NixeKnox
Thank you so much for the help!! it really helped me a lot! you’re awesome!

[Kissang_Cablayda]

I’ve finally figured it out Here’s a video of my lamp rigged:

Rigging Solved

Thank you so much for your great help