An armature is a system of bones used for animating or deforming a mesh.
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why does bendy bones doesnot work the same way in blender 2.8 alpha2 as blender 2.79b?
I was trying to create a rig using b-bones in blender 2.8 alpha2 using this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS8V4_Ncn0w&feature=youtu.be
When I create the rig same way it works well in ...
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How to combine two armatures weighted to two meshes without losing weights?
The title says it all. I have 2 armatures, each one has a mesh that was manually weight-painted. Trouble is, when I try combining the armatures with Ctrl+J, the ...
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Everything looks fine in edit mode, but distorted in object mode
Disabling modifier in viewport does the thing, but I want to animate it, which isn't possible with the armature disabled (see this clip).
I look to some posts with the same issue:
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Rigify addon does not do its job properly for my character
I am new to the Rigify Addon. I have used it with my character, and it's not working well in some parts such as the face.
Link to the blend file
Just give me some tips to improve my rig. You can ...
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How to make an interactive two-finger robot gripper and grab things with it?
I am trying to make a two-finger robot gripper. The grippers use soft body physics and my goal is to move them towards an object in the middle of the scene to grab it and move it. I also want to take ...
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Rigging Automatic Weight not working right
Hello everybody I have sculpted a Frog an already rigged him and posed him into a position, then I dumbly deleted the armeture becuase I thought its done.
Now I had to resculpt the left arm and now ...
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Armature dissconnecting from mesh on export
My problem is simple (I hope). when I try to export as FBX, I get no errors or warning, however when I import the FBX into blender, UE4, or anything else, the armature is disconnected from the Mesh.
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Blender - Bone heat weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones
I am using Blender 2.78 and as it seems I am facing the most common problem that can be. I am receiving an error: Bone heat weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones when i try to ...
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How to extrude a bone using Blender's Python API?
Assuming that I have selected a bone in the scene, how can I extrude it either from either tail or head and position the new bone somewhere in the space using Blender's Python API?
In Edit Mode, I ...
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Using weight paint
I have tried some things to make a part move with an armature at a folding line. And it's almost working fine, but due to the mesh it looks a little bit weird when I move one bone upwards in the Pose ...
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Too Many rig layers (Rigify)
I have two characters and two rigs. One character has already been generated with a rigify armature and the other is not yet generated. if I generate another rigify armature from the different rig, ...
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Adding the ball of foot to a rig
I'm following a tutorial: link, using Blender 2.79, but in my rig I don't have the ball of foot.
Since my purpose is to move the body delicately, I wonder if adding a bone for the ball of foot is ...
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free editing a rigged character's pose similar to editing bones in edit mode
I have modeled, rigged, and weight painted a base character to build all my other characters from. I'm wondering if there's a way to freely move bones in pose mode the way you can mode bones in edit ...
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Can I copy some vertices location to paste on Shape Keys?
I'm not very experienced with Blender but I've been learning a lot in the past few weeks. Right now I'm working on making an animation with a model rigged by someone else.
I adjusted the shape of the ...
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Objects (fingernails) won't parent properly to bones? Objects move?
Ok Im having some issues with separate objects (fingernails) that are moving around despite being weight painted and parented to the correct bone. See, they'll be in the right position when the larger ...
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Positioning unconnected bones in pose mode using cursor
I'm still learning and I am currently having problems positioning unconnected bones accurately in pose mode when using the 3d cursor.
I have one bone positioned correctly and I then need to add a new ...
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What are “Leaf” bones? (Collada import question)
I was wondering - there is an option called "Fix Leaf Bones" when importing Collada format. Do you know, what exactly these Leaf bones are?
Also, if there is some expert able to tell me what the ...
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Why is my Blender Game Engine character's collision box size stuck; and how can I fix this?
I'm having a problem with physics in the Blender Game Engine; I have a character whose default pose in game is simply standing up with its arms at its sides but its collision box works as if it was in ...
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Part of the armature is not copied and pasted correctly
I would like to copy and paste mesh and (rigify) armature from a blender session to another blender session of even in the same blender 3D window,but part of the armature is not copied and pasted ...
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How to [dynamically] pin soft body objects to another mesh?
My goal is to use the Armory addon to move the two soft body meshes to interact some rigid bodies in the scene. For example, I want to apply forces the soft body objects to bring them closer to each ...
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Copy pose to another keyframe [on hold]
As you saw in the title, I want to have a pose copied to another keyframe in the same armature.
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Mesh falls away from armature
So I tried making a LEGO minifig with moveable joints (more of a rubbery texture than plastic.) I created an armature and parented with automatic weights. The first arm worked great. I did the exact ...
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Base mesh is rendered differently between viewport and final render with animation
The "body" mesh stays in edit mode when it's supposed to be animation along the mesh, like in the viewport. Rigging is properly done and i don't know why the results are different.
Here is the ...
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Mechanical Rigging w/ physics
I'm rigging a jet drone (jets on the end of mechanical legs that are attached to a cube) and I would like for it to actually have physics.
Below is the model and rigging:
I'd like for it to be that ...
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Cannot bind mesh to armature?
So I was going to create an MWE for my other question, only to find that I can't seem to get what worked in the larger example to work here. :P
So I set up the bendy bones
Now to bind the girl to ...
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How do I get the finger to follow the fingertip movements
I'm new to blender, and tried to rig a hand.
I followed this tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlL9Ez9SyS0
As you can see in the pic, there's something wrong with my rig (the fingers wont ...
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Why are two of the teeth stuck in space away from my dinosaur?
I'm sure there are a lot of other issues with my file, because this is basically my first actual animated rig in Blender, but the only issue I'm really concerned with right now is the two bottom teeth ...
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How to maintain Pose Bone Transforms in this particular situation?
There is three pose bone in the scene: "Stretch Bone" "Parent Bone" "Control Bone";
Stretch Bone is Stretch To Control Bone;
Parent Bone is Copy Transforms of Stretch Bone;
Three bone are independent;...
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Shape Keys plus Armature
I have already rigged a character in blender.
I am trying to create viseme's using Shape Keys. The shape of the mouth is dependent on the jaw position. Most of the viseme's happen with my characters ...
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Bone envelope changes without reparenting
When a set of bones are parented to a mesh (Ctrl+P > Automatic > With Envelope Weights), you can then change the Bone>Deform envelope settings.
These settings, however, seem to have no effect until ...
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Bone won't bend in quadruped leg
So I am rigging a fox mesh, and the method I used of inverse kinematics isn't working like it has on numerous quadrupeds I have rigged. So the leg has four bones in it. Now I put the IK on the second ...
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Import FBX animation, but comes only Armature
I have a lot of animations and one model in diferent folders like the pictures bellow shows:
I have to connect the movements of these animations to the armature of my model to import in the game that ...
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Random pose generator addon ? How can it be done
Does anyone have an idea how I might be able to generate a lot of random poses of a human armature in blender,such as the head or the finger movements ? I would like to create and save several ...
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Can't change bone's location in pose mode
I'm trying to use pose mode to move the locations of the breast bones in my model, but the transformation widget isn't even showing. I can scale and rotate bones just fine though, and I don't have ...
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how to join bones from 2 different armatures
im trying to join some bones from armature 1 to my basic armature (lets name it armature 2).
I've already tried the shortcut CTRL+J, in object mode both, but since i used this, the bones from the ...
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How do I make an armature skeleton?
I am very new to Blender, so please forgive how simple this sounds and is. I am working on a spoof of VeggieTales, and I have a character who is pretty much a capsule, and I want to be able to bend ...
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How to update/overwrite an existing rig with Rigify
I have rigged a character with Rigify. I would like to adjust some bone positions (edit the armature). The documentation states I can adjust the metarig and then again press Generate Rig. The default ...
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Static value on graph editor?
There's this value on my graph editor that doesn't move. I'm making a running animation, so I grabbed all my points with A and scaled them closer together with S, but for some reason the one sticking ...
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Bezier curve does not always follow hooks
I've imported a Source model (smd and vta) which includes a skinned armature and Shape Keys data. I then want a curve to run along the face and follow the facial expressions from the Shape Keys. I ...
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Why do automatic bone weights paint distant meshes
I have created a simple block-person from a few cube meshes, as well as an armature. When I parent the armature to the meshes with automatic weighting, it seems like blender is assigning distant ...
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Armature distorts mesh on transformation
I'm having hard times, figuring out why the rig behaves veirdly (intended to be 2d)
when i'm parenting the plane "wing" to the armature (with vertex groups), on armature rotation the outline of the ...
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Armature not working after linking new mesh data
So I created a character and an armature that worked very well. I decided to change the legs and feet of my character using a mesh from another character I created (almost identical mesh, with minor ...
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Why Do Envelope Bones Shrink?
It's been a while,but I'm back. I recently got the Sculpt Toolkit add-on for Blender and I like it so far. I was experimenting with the "Human Envelope" skeleton and every time I press G or click the ...
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How does this armature actually work with the physics engine?
In the .blend file below, why does the small sphere controlled by the armature, with the smallest allowed mass (0.010) manage to move the cube which has a much larger mass (1000.0)?
Thanks in advance ...
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Armature deforms my mesh when I parent them
I do ctrl P, with automatic weights as usual but the mesh is deformed. I tried to apply rotation and scale, rotations applies fine but when I try to apply scale the bone gets really messed up. I also ...
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How to apply list of rotations to multiple bones using animation nodes
Currently I am using Expression node to apply rotation to a single bone, is there a way to apply a list of rotations to multiple bones using a single Expression node? I have tried everything, but ...
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Automation for baked rigid body dynamics baking, creating armatures, and transferring to armatures
I would like to streamline the process of creating game ready baked rigid body simulations, and I am wondering if there already exists function, add-on, or script which does this. This would expand ...
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How do I solve the 5000 triangle mesh import limit issue with an armature?
I have Blender. And I have a weird looking model. I decided to experiment with the ROBLOX game by adding a human figure that looks more like a human, less like a pair of blocks. By importing the fbx ...
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Possible to stop Subdivision Surface modifier from deforming my mesh?
I use a subdivision surface modifier which makes my character look great.
I have to apply this modifier and this is where problem begins. It looks good before I apply it. I have no idea why, but ...
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How to change pose without deforming my mesh?
Im not sure if its possible but there are cases where changing pose (by moving/pulling bones) modify the mesh very uglily.
Before:
After:
How can I prevent it? The place where legs connect is ...
