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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Dimensions vs Scale without affecting animation
Before the issue:
For the past few weeks I've been doing a few animations on a Character with an Armature, with a pretty good certainty that I had the scale at 1.
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Problem with armature when importing model - disconnected bones [duplicate]
I am working on an imported model I found (it's Machamp from Pokémon Sun and Moon). Of course, I am working on it for personal uses, nothing commercial. It's a .dae file, and it contains armature and ...
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How to add armature controls?
First of all, I am really new to Blender so the question might seem dumb but I couldn't find something in the internet.
I've just finished rigging a character with all the bones. My question is how ...
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How can I stop the mesh from stretching when posing?
I'm trying to rig a model starting from a rigify metarig and it's been going pretty well. It looks like, though, the mesh is morphed and stretched everytime i pose it, which is a problem mainly for ...
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Using Inverse Kinematics and/or Pole Targets to move hair bones in unison?
I have a model whose hair is composed of several strands that I have each connected to a bone as part of the whole armature. What I want is for each "hair bone" to rotate at the tail in correspondence ...
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How to make lattice follow eye position
so i was using latticed eye that works quite well with tracking etc but i have a problem when i change the head pose the eye will follow the head and the lattice wont like this :
i tried parenting ...
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Difficult to click on bones?
I've looked over the net and found nothing about this, so it may be some setting I have wrong. I'm using the newest version of 2.8 and it may have some option settings that were carried over from a ...
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Problem with bone
I have my model and when I rotate some bone its works, but in some bone i have a problem with the rotation, like in the picture 3. Any solution?
Model: https://ibb.co/n7tnW8Z
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How can I parent multiple meshes to one bone?
I have a very many objects in my object tree. How can I select them all and parent them to my Root bone?
They are children of the armature, but they're not connected to the root bone.
I've tried to:...
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Assigning Mesh into Pose Bone position not Rest Bone
I have this situation where I got BVH mocap animation that looks fine throughout the animation. Start pose bone is actually correct, but the Rest Bone is stupid as all the limbs etc are simply all ...
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Can't select (Most) of my armature
So I have an interesting situation I have been unable to find an answer for anywhere. I recently started working on a character for an animation. I am ready to start animating, but for some strange ...
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Deformed mesh when applying weigth
I downloaded a Skeleton , and a helm model with another skeleton, I deleted the models skeleton, and try to put the one I want as parent, if I do this by Ctrl + P Bones, or bones relative, then in ...
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My mesh doesnt follow my bone
I have this model of a truck and I'm setting up the bone structure for a UE4 vehicle project. The armature consists of six "wheel bones" and one root bone for all other parts.
I've manage to connect ...
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Remove bone rotation influence on mesh?
I only want my bone to affect the weight paint based only on it's location not it's rotation. Is this possible?
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Unable to adjust weight paints
So I'm working on a character I want to animate, and the eyes and hair are being manipulated by my arm bones. I have gone into weight paint mode and tried to erase the weights on the eyes. This did ...
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Can bones in IK chains be also moved independently?
I have the following IK chain:
Bone 3 is the IK bone and 4 is the IK target. Clearly, when 4 is moved the entire chain follows it. Which leads to the problem that it is impossible to move the bones ...
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Cannot select individual bones of armature appeneded from 2.80 into 2.79
for some strange reason I can't select bones in pose mode on an armature I've appended from 2.80 into 2.79. It looks like all of the bones are selected, however I can still rotate and move bones if ...
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Leftover vertices after parenting to bone - mouth/eyeballs not rigged
I took a humanoid mesh off the internet to use as a character model. I also have a custom humanoid skeleton. I lined up the skeleton to the mesh, then I parented the mesh to the bones. The rig looks ...
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Unable to select bones in pose mode (Blender 2.8)
This question has been asked a few times in various forms here, but none of the solutions work for me. I have included a short video showing the issue, where I highlight everything.
https://youtu.be/...
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Bones messes up my model?
I just made a 3D model of a humanoid Darkrai from Pokémon, just for fun, and I wanted to make a little animation with it.
So what I did was;
I made the half of the model and applied the mirror ...
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Making a bone rig for piston
I'm trying to make a bone rig for a piston which will be a part of active aerodynamics of a vehicle.
I did find a video but it was on older version of Blender and confused me halfway.
How to make ...
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Why can't I move the Bones?
I selected the armature, I am in pose mode and no bones are showing up. Am I doing something wrong? It would make sense if I am, as I am a beginner but I looked to see if this happened to anyone else ...
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Creating a custom axis for bones to rig [duplicate]
I want to create a custom axis for a bone to rotate around, which won't be along any one of the axis X, Y or Z. I want to use it for a concept car which uses some body panels to use it as an active ...
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Animation: Root of armature
Picture a monkey climbinga a hanging wire, hand over hand, then take away the body, so only arms, the bone structure goes from on hand to the other.
The root of the armature will be in one of the ...
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Use multiple Child Of constraints in one bone and animation
I have a model and rigged this model then i added 2 Child Of constraints to one of the bones and in timeline i want to change parent but when i do this , bone and attached mesh go to other place and ...
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Bendy Bones Mouth Driver's Setup
I am trying to drive the (in y) of the selected bone with the (z scale) of the (ctr_mouth_r)
But it doesn't work it twists in a weird way
Actually, I was trying to follow this tutorial Bendy Bones ...
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I separated arms from the torso of a model, how can I seamlessly attach them again?
So I ended up separating the arms from the torso of this model to make it easier to rig. I just got into blender today and I don't know how to seamlessly join them back together with the torso again ...
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Moving parallel
How to make the bones move so that they dont go into the x axis, while I'm moving the foot IK Bone. To explain it better, the picture shows, how I dont want to have it, because the upper bone off the ...
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Automatic weights don't seem to work properly on the mirrored side of my model
I seem to have the same issue as Automatic Weights Different on one side than the other
which doesn't seem to have a solution.
I've tried removing and reapplying the automatic weights on both sides ...
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Bug, Bone Constraints are Greyed Out
I am learning about bone constraints but have found myself unable to even select them. I started a new file to undo anything that might have contributed to the problem but I am still experiencing this ...
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Adapt Limit Location Constraint to Bounds of Mesh Object
I recently asked a question here looking for advice on constraining a bone to within the internal space of a custom mesh object, using the default bone constraints available in Blender. I've been ...
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(Is there an easy fix?) Imported model bones are all rotated 90 degrees
I am learning how to model in blender, and am trying to make a character for my game. Instead of making a character from scratch I imported a default model from unity and am modifying it.
I noticed ...
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It it safe to remove an unused bone?
I'm making a shirt for Sims 4 and couldn't find a Sims 4 reference mesh shaped like mine from which to transfer the weight paint. I ended up using a full body mesh, but now I have vertex groups for ...
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Control bones keep sliding off mesh when posing
I've been following a rigging tutorial on youtube and noticed something odd on my end. In the tutorial video (link includes relevant timestamp), the bones that control lips appear "glued" to the exact ...
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Limit Possible Bone Location Within Custom Object
I would like to be able to constrain the possible X,Y and Z locations of an armature bone to within the 3D space inside a specified mesh object, such as a cube or sphere (and eventually a custom shape)...
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How to select each of the segments in my bone for weight-paint?
Even though I’m in Edit Mode, I can only select two bones. Except one of them has 4 segments!
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Problem with bone disconnecting during animation
I have difficulty articulating my thought, so please be patient with me. I am having issue of child bone disconnecting from parent bone eventhough they are "connected" during animation/posing (ref ...
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Why does blender 2.8 twist the thumbs the wrong way around in my Poser 11.1 Pro FBX figure when it imports
Why does blender 2.8 twist the thumbs the wrong way around in my Poser 11.1 Pro FBX figure when it imports. How can I maintain the integrity of A Poser figure when I import it into blender
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How can I roll a cube (around its edges) with armatures?
I want to set up an animation of a rolling cube for a video game.
The cube needs to roll/tumble to all its sides.
When I add bones to the cube, only the parent bone seems to make the whole cube ...
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What's the difference between DEF bones and ORG bones in functionality?
I have downloaded a very nice, fully rigged, character model and have embarked on studying this file and doing some tests. However, from the theoretical POV, I can't seem to grasp the difference ...
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When using Rigify, Is there a way to add more bones to the lips?
I want more control on the lips. However, when I subdivide the bones in the metarig I get errors when I try to generate.
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Cant find bone constraint in blender 2.8?
Im trying to have 1 bone copy the rotation of another, and aside from this https://blenderartists.org/t/no-bone-constraints-in-2-8b/1136765/4 I can't find anything on the topic - there doesn't seem to ...
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Change Pivot Point of Bone Without Changing Child Bones
There is a bone in an already completed and weight painted rig that I want to change the pivot point for. If I move the head in edit mode, the child bones move as well.
How do I change the pivot ...
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IK Rotation option for opposite end
I have a string of bones with an IK constraint at the end that uses most, but not all, of the bones. When the target is brought back, the first bone bends greatly away from the bone before it, and the ...
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Connecting eye rig to head bone
I rigged the body of my character and proceeded to the facial rig, in which the eyes (mesh) are already connected to an armature, but now I want to connect those eyes armature to a new bone I made on ...
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How can I have the bones of my armature find the most direct path when reseting their rotation?
My character does a backflip and therefore the hip and abdomen bones have been rotated "360" degrees. Considering that the idle pose hasn't made these transformations if the end of the backflip ...
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How do I rotate on a custom axis in Blender 2.8?
I am trying to rotate a screw named "windage" but it is not rotating on the proper axis. I have created an armature and made the windage screw a child:
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Entire Model:
If I rotate windage ...
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Turning off deform for all bones
How do you turn off deform for all bones in a rig? I've tried selecting all the bones in Edit Mode and unchecking Deform, but going through each bone, I've noticed some are still checked.
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Bind an armature with animation to another armature
I have a model of a character with an armature that's already been weight-painted and functions normally. However, I now want to take a different armature with no model and somehow bind certain bones ...
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No Solution Is Working. Bone Heat Weighting Failure. I've Tried Everything [duplicate]
I have a crab that I'm trying to connect to an armature and nothing is working. I have no non-manifold, no corner doubles, I tried separating and rejoining and I also tried re-scaling my mesh.
