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I have this IK Fortnite character and I tried making, only the arms, FK. First, in pose mode, I selected the forearm bone and turned down the Influence option under Bone Constraints > IK. Doing that, the arms now were FK but the hands were weird when trying to pose.

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Trying to get rid of that, I switched to edit mode, selected the hand bone, went back to pose mode and turned down the Influence option under Bone Constraints > Copy Rotation. With that, the weird hand was gone but the hand bone wouldn't move along.

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How do I make that bone move with the others (as a normal bone would do in FK)?

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  • $\begingroup$ The reason the "the hands were weird" is that your "hand_l" and "hand_r" FK bones also have IK constraints to the IK bone. So again, my answer below will require you to also have the IK-influence driver on these bones as well. $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    Commented Oct 4 at 16:29

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You are on the right track to understanding the solution...

Actually an IK bone generally doesn't "follow" FK bones, but in some rigify characters you have controls to determine if IK or FK controls a limb, and whether to snap align one to another at frames where you want to switch character bones being driven by IK or not:

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Here's what you can do to an armature so that you can switch and have IK follow FK and not have a circular logic that could cause problems.

First define an armature (or armature object level) Custom Property for each limb set (arms, legs, eyes):

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copy this as a new driver:

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Use this to negate the IK Influence of IK over hand or foot FK bone where you find this IK constraint, so that FK/IK influence doesn't fight one another:

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Then you can add a copy position to the IK bone, and drive its influence factor to disable based on some IK->FK factor. Note that I change the bone end to be used from 0 to 1.

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You'd need similar copy-rotation constraint and driver on the IK bone, related to the hand rotation.

Now when you turn the armature IK influence between 0 and 1 you'll see proper alignment, and can keyframe the appropriate gone. When you want to change animation control to either IK or FK, be sure to add keyframes for both bones.

This will somewhat mimic Rigify style controls. Rigify is superior to this, as it doesn't use copy constraints on the IK bone, but instead uses scripting to copy position and rotation alignments of the IK bone for keyframing at an IK/FK control transition in your animation, which is really the only time you need alignment.

I did this for one of your example limbs:

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    $\begingroup$ I didn't manage to do it. I actually got stuck on the first step. You said, "First define an armature (or armature object level) Custom Property for each limb set" - how do I do that? And do I have to define it for every bone, like: upper arm, forearm? $\endgroup$
    – 000x6
    Commented Oct 4 at 3:57
  • $\begingroup$ @TalMic -- you should have searched for "custom property" in this forum. I can't sit next to you and tutor on too basic a level. $\endgroup$
    – james_t
    Commented Oct 4 at 16:23
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    $\begingroup$ Sorry bruv. My bad $\endgroup$
    – 000x6
    Commented Oct 4 at 22:19

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