In Drupal 6 you could do it with hook_form_alter()s in template.php or a helpful little module called Node and Comments Form Settings.  With 7...I have no idea, but apparently not quite the way I've done it before. 

I survived the alpha iterations! Learned a bit but didn't end up helping much (or at all really) aside from something like a bug report and confirming a UX issue.  So now we're sitting on beta1 and I feel slightly more confident putting stuff here as from memory the betas are upgradeable.  Alphas are not.

QAD render to celebrate finishing the bulk of rigging. A couple of tiny little tweaks to make but it's stuff I can do as I go.

Low enhanced antialiasing, radiosity and Skytracer on default settings (added the thing, checked the cloud boxes).

Think I used too much blue. And yes it looks funny as there are no joint or face morphs. I need more RAM and less OpenGL sliders.

The pose is based off a really old pic of my sister's as I realised a bit ago that my base models matched up with her fan characters.

I've spent a good amount of time trying to work out how the hell to do a prehensile tail rig. The last time I did it, it involved a 72 bone multi-goal IK chain.

It kinda hurt.

This time, it involves a 65 bone IKB chain, main direction controlled by the big ball-shaped null object on the end.

I haven't yet tried to wrap the tail around something but I am stupidly confident.

Going to do some sliders to control the fingers and the wings, then that's ready to go, and I have to do the sliders thing for the fingers on the other two models before I start building characters.

But I can start building characters! YAY!

Showing off the completed rig of the Avian base model.

Weight mapping and adjusting geometry on wings. Still a way to go, obviously.

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