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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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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Is there a way to reparent these bones, without ruining the bone animation? Trying to use 2 different sets of animations, but different parenting
I'm trying to reparent bones (which have an existing animation) without wrecking the animation.
What we have is a character riding a kart. But his Leg, Knee, Foot bones are all on the same level, ...
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How do you create the bone/armature structure for a 4-bar linkage?
I have a four-bar linkage system in Blender and I need to animate it with bones and armatures. The meshes are in the initial position to start, I just need to create the constraints to keep all 4 ...
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Is it possible to do Cloth/Hair Physics with bones?
I may be on completely the wrong track here, but I'm making a character. They have thick cartoon hair and a dress.
If I weight paint the dress to the basic rig, it will not look great. If I have to ...
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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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Body contorting when I try to pose it
I'm trying to manually rig a model but when I turn the head, the head starts to contort and shift to become smaller/skinnier. How can I fix this??
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Armature rigging issue
For the past few days, I've been trying to remake one of the mechanical robot arm taking inspiration from Ian Hubertz's work.
I have almost completed the rig for the entire arm except for the hands ...
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Blender 3.1 IK Bones Snap Out of Position When Moving Them
This seems more like a bug then anything else, but maybe I'm overlooking something.
I have this coat that I've rigged that has worked just fine in the past, but now it's doing this weird thing where ...
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Unfolding a paper map with textures on either side
I'm trying to animate a map unfolding (inspired by this tutorial for a box unfolding).
I've subdivided a plane, then added bones to it.
I've added a Solidify Modifier to the plane, and defined three ...
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How do I keep an individual part of a rig completely still while the rest of the rig continues to move?
I want to animate a character punching, but I want the fist to stop at the impact while the rest of the body continues to move. Is there some sort of anchoring mechanic? How do I put that into the ...
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Is there a way to only store keyframes of only selected bones in poseLib?
What bones does "Add New Pose" operator store in Pose Library ?
I am animating with "Blenrig" Character Vincent and it has lots and lots of bones. When I try to store poses it creates keyframes for ...
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Blender rigging join two ik-chain in one system
I can't solve this problem in any way (marked "trouble" on gif)
"A" and "C" are separate IK-chains that work well. But, I cannot connect them correctly.
"C.2" ...
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