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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 do I transform bones without deforming the armature?

I’m trying to rotate a bone in edit mode so I can use it with this add on called spring bones which basically makes bones… well… springy. The add on requires bones to be rotated a certain way to get a ...
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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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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 to edit a bone with a local axis?

Coming from maya I'm a little bit confused with some rigging stuff in blender, got stuck on this one. Here i have a two bones finger, i have an armature axis display on, and want to move the head of ...
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Rigid Connection of Bones

This crank linkage works, except I need to constrain the larger bone to the bone labeled "crank" so they behave as a solid link. When I add rigging to the tail of the larger bone, the larger bone is ...
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Editing shape after parenting armatures

After parenting the body with bones I tried to modify the shape and add more loop cuts in edit mode but, when I am trying to move the hand in pose mode I got this shape? so, what is the issue?
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Access to the poses in poselib

I have an object with assigned armature .To this armature is assigned poselib, with several poses.Now my intention is to access all of the bones position in my python script from the poselib list I ...
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2D animation rig

I’m doing a very basic 2D cut out animation with a simple rig attached to it. But the bones are sticking to my planes in irrational ways (for example the head bone seems to move other planes besides ...
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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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How to show transforms of Child Of or Copy Transforms constraint

I am trying to find a way to make the transforms from a Child Of or Copy Transforms constraint visible. Let's say the bone is in its default position and with the constraint activated changes to a ...
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IK Bone act weird with control bone and does a 180° rotation

when I try to position my control bone from my armature the whole construct makes a 180° roation which I don't want. But the pose that my object should do looks like this and I can't get it this way. ...
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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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Bone snapping to control bone while making an Inverse Kinematic Rig

Good evening. I have made a humanoid rig and wish to add an IK Controller to the bone "UpperArm.R". I wish to make the bone "CTRL_1.R" bone as a controller bone. Whenever I do so, ...
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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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