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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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Modifying what vertices a bone affects

I hope this hasn't been answered somewhere else. I remember having found it a long time ago but I've been looking for the answer for a week with no success. I know there is a way in which you can ...
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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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Exporting bendy bones/shape key animations?

How can I export these animations into another program? I don't need the rig itself in these other programs, I just need the mesh's animations to be exported, if that makes sense. Is this possible, ...
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why "set parent to with automatic weight" can't work on mirror?

I add bones on my created figure. I want to connect the body to the bones. I click on both and use "set parent to with automatic weight", but the mirrored half part of body doesn't cover the bones. ...
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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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Offset object/bone animation

Is possible to offset animation in Blender. For example. I have an animation of a hand grabing a gun, but I need to change how hand grabs the gun. Is there a way, to change only first pose, so any ...
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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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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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Why does my armature still not move my mesh?

I'm brand new to this so go easy on me. I'm using Blender 3.1 with the cats extension and despite parenting, weight painting(some of it) and assigning vertex groups, the mesh still doesn't move with ...
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toggle Object Mode <-> Pose Mode by script code

I want to toggle Object Mode to Pose Mode by script code, because I usually run blender in Object Mode but sometimes I need to add some keyframes while I run blender. that is why I want to toggle ...
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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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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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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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Copy Transform Constraint Wrong Rotation

I have created an empty to hold the relation of the resting position of a bone to a weapon. I am setting a copy transform constraint on the hand IK with this empty as the target. The constraint ...

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