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I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out why my character's eyes are doing what their doing when I move the eye tracker controller. Do they need to be parented or something? If someone could dumb it down for me as I'm still new to blender and this is my first ever character model/rig.

Thanks in advance! :)

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  • $\begingroup$ Yes. Each eye needs to be a separate object with Scale and Rotation applied (Ctrl-A > Scale & Rotation in Object mode) before you rig your model. $\endgroup$
    – John Eason
    Commented Apr 13 at 22:58
  • $\begingroup$ Okay. I went back to separate the eyes before I generated the Rig. And applied Scale & Rotation. However, I still getting the same issue? $\endgroup$
    – Abbey
    Commented Apr 14 at 1:52
  • $\begingroup$ please provide blend file, because rigging is quite complex and you didn't show us any technical settings you made for that rig. thx. $\endgroup$
    – Chris
    Commented Apr 14 at 7:08
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    $\begingroup$ As @Chris says we'll need to see your Blend file but I'm guessing that you may not have reset the origins of each eye after you seperated them so they're still rotating around the same origin. Select each eye in turn then on the right-click menu choose set Origin > Origin to Geometry. You can your Blend file via blend-exchange.com following the instructions there to copy the link on that page. Then edit your question here and paste the link into it. $\endgroup$
    – John Eason
    Commented Apr 14 at 8:08
  • $\begingroup$ Okay. I uploaded my blender file to the question. Thanks again, I appreciate the help. $\endgroup$
    – Abbey
    Commented Apr 14 at 12:55

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Do you have any eye bones? If no, I think that is your problem. Create a bone that starts in the back of the eye and ends in the end.

Parent each eye to its respective bone, then add the Damped Track constraints to each, and select the target to each respective tracker to each side.

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  • $\begingroup$ I do have eye bones and they are parented to the head bone. I'm attempting to try your advice and so I added the damped track constraints to each eye, but I'm a little confused on what I need to select for the target for each? I'm still quite new to blender, so I apologize for my lack of knowledge and understanding. I appreciate the help :) $\endgroup$
    – Abbey
    Commented Apr 14 at 17:03
  • $\begingroup$ your tracker has 2 circles in it, ritgh? Those are the individual eyes tracker, when adding the damped track modefier , you must add the targer to the individual eye tracker. I can see you are using riggify, if you ALREDY have the bone, I think you dont need to add the constraint, it is alredy in there. What you need to do is to delet all vertex grups, delet the armature modefier, select the eye bone, (be sure your rig is in rest mode for this step), then parent the eye to the eye bone (bone parent) $\endgroup$
    – JubLubs 9063
    Commented Apr 14 at 17:12
  • $\begingroup$ Oh my gosh! It worked! - Well for the one eye the other eye isn't moving now.... $\endgroup$
    – Abbey
    Commented Apr 14 at 17:41
  • $\begingroup$ Actually not only is the one eye not moving with the tracker, but now the rest of the rig is detached from the rest of the body. The rig only controls the eyes, teeth and tongue. $\endgroup$
    – Abbey
    Commented Apr 14 at 18:53

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