Questions tagged [bones]
Bones are the individual sections of an armature that are used to deform the mesh. Bones act like other objects (they have properties and can have constraints) but are invisible in the render.
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How to fix fins clipping
This is my first time rigging a character in blender, i followed a tutorial so I have most of it done. The only problem I've encountered, is my character has fins on the back of their shins, so when ...
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Copy rest position pose to another armature
I have multiple armatures, all with the same amount of bones and bone names, but different bone positions that I want to combine into a pose library. The issue is that I can't apply the bone positions ...
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Binding of machine gun ammunition chain
I made the skeleton of a machine gun, and because I want to achieve the effect of the remaining bullets disappearing bit by bit after finishing the bullet in UE, the parent-child relationship of my ...
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How to "apply" Rotation to a armature bone?
I have the following "controller" bone added to my rig:
The problem is, that if I add a "copy rotation" constraint to the bones I want to control, they apply the rotation which I ...
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How to prevent cape piece from merging into character's body using shape keys?
On frame 259 the character's cape piece merges into his body. How do I prevent this from happening using shape keys? Or is there another method I can use? That piece of the cape merges into his body ...
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Why does blender put large meshes instead of bones when importing a model with bones
I have already tried to change these bones, but only the bones change in edit mode, and there you will not be able to change the pose, only the position and size of the bones
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Odd issue when rigging
I was able to rig a model, but I'm having issues when moving bones. The model wasn't in a t-pose, the hands were clipped through the legs. I rigged the model, and whenever I move the hand for example, ...
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How to recalculate pose bone rotations when armature bone rotation is changed?
I'm trying to import bones and animation data in to blender. The quaternions I have for each keyframe are correct if the armature's bones do not have any rotation. However I also need to import the ...
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How do I build IK rig for VR with multiple constraints?
I'm new to rigging and need some help understanding how to get this rig to work in the context of a VR game. I want to create this complex (IMO) rig that will rotate on different axis using IK. The ...
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Keep bone in IK chain always pointing down
First time trying to rig something. I've got this sample project to recreate the core issue and needed helping figuring out how to get a specific bone in an IK chain to always be pointed down.
I have ...
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Parent armature with a moving object
How can I parent an armature with an object that moves when you press play? I would like "armature.001" to move with the object.
Thank you
File: https://wetransfer.com/downloads/...
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Combining Mixamo animations with own animations/rig with specifc bones
I am trying to merge some bones from a Mixamo rig to one of my own armatures. I have only animated the arms in my rig. It is strumming a guitar. But i want to combine everything aside from the arms ...
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How can I connect objects together as if with strings/springs?
My end goal is to be able to move one object, and have others that are connected to it, follow as if they're being pulled/dragged by a string or spring. Ideally I'd also want to be able to lock the ...
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How Do I Rig the Eyes and Tongue Properly So They Can Move?
I'm doing a Blender tutorial on rigging and am having trouble with rigging the eyebrows and the tongue. For some reason the eyebrows move strangely as part of the eyebrow moves but the rest stay still ...
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How edit rig bones after skinning?
During the posing phase, I noticed that the rig bones at the thumb are out of place.
Checked the metarig, everything is in the right place and so are the axes.
I re-generated the rig and the result is ...
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Batch renaming bones - without number sequence at the end
I need assistance. I am trying to batch rename the bones but its not working as intended.
When I batch rename the bones from e.g. DEF_CHEST.L to ORG_CHEST.L, they are all replaced with numbers at the ...
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Scale issue when opening glb export in gltf-viewer
When I import my glb export to gltf-viewer it gets enormous, scale issue, I need to use such animated character from Mixamo for an AR project.
Would really appreciate some help, Link for 3D animated ...
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Obtaining joint-local rotations of armature with python
I have written scripts that take as input the joint-local rotations (in quaternions) of an armature. All works as expected when extracting these rotations directly from a .bvh file and converting them ...
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I can't scale down my bendy bones anymore with CTRL+ALT+S
I'm using blender 4.1 I think this function has changed. When I switch to bendy bones, I am told I can scale the bones down with CTRL+ALT+S to a reasonable size. Right now when I press that, it just ...
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Unreal Engine Metahuman Rigging (Blender Rig)
Overview: Important information: Using Blender 4.0, (Blender Help Subreddit took my post down within the minute cause they can't read context), this is more of questions with a goal.
I've been trying ...
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Fixing the Rotational Origin of a Bone
I'm trying to set up an eye rig, but when it comes to the bones, the eyes don't rotate the way I want to. It's difficult to explain, but it looks like the eyes are rotating in the wrong origin point. ...
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How would I "move" X Axis Mirror point to multiple locations for an animated scene?
Just to clarify, everything is working as intended. The correct bones are being mirrored, they're moving with the correct transformations, etc., etc. The X Mirror feature hinges on a little orange ...
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(Python) Change the bone roll of a list of bones in variables
So I've had to store some bones in variables because I want to call on them even if they have slightly different names. I want to change the roll of a list of these bones, like this:
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I can't see my rig!
My character has a rig but I can't see it in Object mode, Pose mode, I checked if the rig is hidden and it is visible when I look on the right.
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Applying armature rotation across all frames
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How do I apply a bone rotation to an armature across all frames in the scene?
I am working with static armatures, which are obtained by importing a .bvh motion capture file that I manually ...
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Bone Layer Won't Change
For context I am Using Blender 4.1.1.0 Somehow I've managed to get all of my bones unassigned from any layer, I'm trying to put them on a layer so I have access to them, I'm Selecting them in the ...
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Rigging a medal that swings along a ring
I am trying to rig this medal that is attached to a ring, which is attached to a ribbon. What i am trying to achieve is have the medal swing and move around when the body moves, as a real medal would ...
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Why is the mesh getting messed up when I rotate the bone?
Why is the mesh getting messed up when I rotate the bone? I have subdivided and applied scale on the mesh. Please guide me on how to fix this.
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Rigify Chain failure, can't generate rig
I have created armature from scratch many times because of this error, but there is a problem every time. I have connected all the bones one by one and I still get this error.
Also, after giving the ...
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how to temporarily disable a parent bones influence
I have a sword in a characters hands, I want them to put it down and move, however the sword's bone is parented to a sheath's bone that is parented to the characters torso bone.
How can I individually ...
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