An armature is a system of bones used for animating or deforming a mesh.
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Each bone is deformind the entire mesh and not just a part of it
I am still an amateur to blender and I usually use automatic weights for my Character's armatures, but this time I have encountered a problem in which the automatic weights makes so a bone has a way ...
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Bones don't respond to rigid body
I made a character with ragdoll physics, in which I made boxes with active rigid bodies, and parented them to the bones. Most bones react well, except for the right leg, which pulls away from the body ...
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Armature pose position is different orientation from initial layout in edit mode, and automatic weighting problem
So I've been trying to fix my bone axes so that my arms are bending correctly and I've been running into a lot of pitfalls. This is my third rig for this mesh so far so I'm hoping that somebody can ...
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Export (.FBX) the animation of multiple armature
I'm using blender to create a game with unity.
I have a character modeled and rigged with his own armature, and his clothe has its own armatures too.
The problem is that I have one animation wich ...
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Motion capture animations to IK rig
I have .bvh (sometimes even .fbx) files with motion capture data that I want to retarget onto my own custom IK rig (or even a rigify one would be better).
The question is: How do I go about it?
The ...
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IK Constraints Swinging Around Wildly
My IK's are out of control. I've set up enough simple IK's to know how to do it correctly and I have not idea what's going on here. I've tried redoing the IK's, recreating the bones completely, but ...
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How to Fix Axis of Armature Without Wrecking Mesh?
I'm trying to rotate parts of an armature with code and finding that pieces of the armature have their axis oriented differently for some reason which makes looping through the pieces and doing the ...
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Problems with Armatures Weighting
This is my first post and it is on a topic that has been puzzling me for hours.
Essentially I imported an OBJ that I cannot split to objects. It has to stay one object even though the character has ...
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How to use spline ik with curve with modifer applied? (How to use splike ik, for snake movement animation ?)
I try to use Spline IK Constraint to make "Snake move".
I have armature with 4 bones, and I apply Spline IK Constraint to it. Its don't want to work with curve after modification, it uses curve ...
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Merge two armatures into one
I want to merge two similar armatures, that have same named bones in them
And when I merge armatures with Ctrl+J, bones don't merge, the same named bones were like that: "head" and "head.001", "head....
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How to limit movement of a IK-chain (armature) to one plane?
I build a Zig-Zag-mechanic from a bone chain and enabled Inverse Kinematics for
the first bone and the whole chain.
When contracted it should look like this: VVVVVVV
Currently it is a straight line of ...
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Copy rotation constraint adjusting influence doesn't work
In the gif below, I applied a copy rotation constraint to the lower bone of the upper arm. It is copying the rotation of the larger bone directly on top of it. While the influence is set to 1.00, it ...
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How to match an armature to a .fbx file?
I created a cartoon character in Blender, and I would like to rig it and import FBX moves from Mixamo to apply to this character.
Obviously, the character I created is unique in shape and size (...
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Eye rig for a creature
I'm trying to build this eye rig as seen in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8mgzIgz2Bs&t=392s
Onto a creature that has it's eyes on the side of it's head but not entirely. Because ...
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How to join two parts of an armature
How can I connect those two parts of my little monster? I came extruding the bones down and now when I grab the torso it does not bring along the legs! Can you help me, please? All the rest is working ...
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Adding bone weights deforms mesh
So yeah if anyone can help me that would be awesome
(i have already applied rotation location and scale)
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My armature is not connected with bones
I follow every Step which given in tutorial, but my armature is not connected with bone. After creating armature and bone, I tried to move my bone and armature in pose mode, but it's not working.
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What am I doing wrong with my rigged body?
I just started "playing" with blender after realising that I have to be able to design my own objects to make my own game without keep on using someone else's work/Unity Asset store prefabs. I never ...
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Combining/Baking multiple object animation NLA strip into single strip
I have two different animation strip of different objects.
I need to export these two animation as a single strip in order to play it unity.
Is it possible to bake it as a single strip.
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Applying Transforms
I appended the object you can see in the picture. I don't seem to be able to rotate part of the object in the direction I wish, despite having applied the rotation transform.
Any idea why this is ...
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Copying bone names from other Armature
There's a way to copy the names from other similar Armature?
I have a custom model rigged by myself and every bone has a custom name, but that skeleton is identical to the ones used in Mixamo (Same ...
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How to set the F-curve that defines the bone’s Y position to a reasonable range
I'm trying to drive the control bones of the armature through the shapekeys using the method explained here,that's basically something like this :
Add a driver to the bone’s rotation in Pose Mode (...
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Armature shifts between Pose mode and Edit mode
I'm using s Spline IK system to create the spine for a creature I'm making, but when I activated the Spline IK, some parts of the same seem to shrink or shift a bit. Which slitghly deforms my mesh a ...
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Bendy bones not cooperating
just why!!? I was trying to make bendy bones on my model, and first of all when I tried to set it with automatic weights, it said it had failed. I have no idea why. So I had to do it manually. After ...
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Need help with basic armature stuff
I´m a newbie with blender and this is probably very basic stuff I´m asking, but I really can´t get my head around this. I have a snakelike mesh I would like to slither in place like a wave but having ...
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Symmetrize Vertex Group on object with armature [duplicate]
I have an object with an armature and I want the limbs on both sides to be symmetrical.
I rigged the object using Mixamo's autorigger because it performs much better than blender could. However the ...
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Why does the elbow turn the wrong way?
I'm doing a character for a (very) low poly game. Since I already had a very basic IK rig laying around, I figured I'd adapt its armature to the recently created character.
However, even after ...
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Made the leg IK bone, tried to attach the upper leg bone to the pelvis but after attaching it, the body rotates a little bit
I'm relatively new at rigging in Blender, and I tried to rig a humanoid model that I made. Everything went fine, but after finishing the leg IK bone, I tried to attach the upper leg bone to the lower ...
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How to have skeleton/armature change with shape keys?
I want to have it so when I change the value of a shapekey, it also moves a bone according to the value. So for example, when I change my character meshes eye width or height, the eye bones move with ...
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Softbody self collision problem (something like FEM)?
I just want to ask you, im trying make something like this (physics):
https://vimeo.com/88144952
I have a mesh model of hand, but it makes me a lot of problems, because i dont know how to make it ...
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How to join sword with pre-existing mesh and armature?
I want to say first that I've tried to find the answer to this 4-5 different times in different places, and I'm pretty desperate at this point because once I solve this I can move forward with a game ...
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Motion tracking empty track, armature
I would like to ask if I can rotate only one edge of a bone by parenting it to an empty track exported from a motion tacking video.
Is this possible?
Thank you very much
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Is it possible to update link to a renamed armature?
I was curious to know if it's possible to update a link to an armature after you renamed it in the original .blend file. I had to change its name for the sake of organization, but I haven't been able ...
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Motion tracking to perfect overlay people in a video with 3D characters
Let's say that I have a lot of small scenes that I have extraced from a long video and I want to overlay the actors who are shown on the video with as many 3D characters created by me. I want to ...
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AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'data'
I'm using a plugin to export my model to a special format, however, upon exporting, I get the error AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'data'.
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Attach swords to mesh/skeleton for exporting as FBX
Is it possible to join a separate sword like the one in the picture to a preexisting humanoid mesh. Then have that sword be linked to the wrist bone with a bone in the handle and have the sword be ...
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Rigging and Bone Weighting: Ignore Y Rotation (Twisting), Only Follow X & Z Rotation (Bending)
Is there a way to rig/weight bones such that the mesh doesn't twist along with the bone when rotating it on its Y-axis, and only deforms when the bone rotates on its X and Z axes? In other words, the ...
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Restrict Armature only for Pose Mode
Is there a way to restrict the mode of armature object only for pose mode? Because once you created bones on Edit Bone and finished tweaking setting on Object Mode, It's unnecessary to go into those ...
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Display rotation of certain bones in a kinematic study model
I'm creating industrial robot inverse kinematic rig. Is a way to display rotation of a bones after placing IK bone? The best would be a kind of chart thet shows rotation for any of 4 motors like this:
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Bones moving some vertex groups wrong
I have a rigged character as you can see below
It seems ok in T-Pose, but when I try to move his feet, I get into something odd:
All of the vertexes are in the same object, the shoes and the ropes ...
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How to stop bones from distorting parts of mesh
Sorry if this a stupid, often asked question, but I've consulted numerous tutorials and guides and forum posts and such and such on this particular problem and they've at best only partly worked, so I ...
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Character mesh unbinds during Cycles Render - *Using group link with armature proxy*
this is my first question here, and this is a really odd problem I'm having: My character's mesh unbinds during Cycles Render for whatever reason.
My animation file is linked externally to a rig file....
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how to reassign (key) bones used by Rigify when adding more bones
I've got the how to add bones figured out, but the tail end of the bone on the tail has a specific purpose and I do not know how to reassign it to the new spot where it needs to be after adding the ...
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Armature: Bones deforming mesh objects in GLTF viewer
Hello fellow BlendMasters!
I am trying to make a simple sliding door animation for my GLTF viewer and keep running into this problem:
When i parent my objects (doors) with the separate bones (ctrl + ...
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Parent object to a bone and object becomes offsets! How do I prevent object from moving?
I have just spent the better part of my day trying many different examples in an attempt to simply parent an object to a bone without the object moving (aka keep_transform). But no matter what I try ...
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armature deforms horribly
I've been working for a bit on my 3d character in blender and have finished making a Mesh and The Character itself. But once I apply my armature to my character with automatic weights it get's messed ...
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Adding bones to an armature, and preserving their vertex groups/weights
Let's say I have "Model 1" and "Model 2". Model 2 has a near-identical armature to Model 1 (almost every bone has the same name), but Model 2's armature has a few different bones that I wish to ...
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Random vertices attached to mesh?
I have been noticing this happen occasionally; I'll see a random point/vertex detached or close to my mesh that is connected to the mesh(far left orange dot). If I delete it, it will erase my mesh and ...
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pole targ it does not work as I would like
I'm working ik, and I try to put them a pole targ but this one does not work like I want.
I'm using the pole targ to simulate the elbow but as you can see in the picture this nose bends like a piece ...
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How to make a bone extremity automaticly reach another bone extremity
I'm looking for an automated way to make the edge of a bone going at the location of the edge of the bone connected to it.
I can do it manually but it's a process I have to repeat a lot. I want to ...
