Questions tagged [rigging]
Rigging is the process used in computer animation, particularly in the animation of characters, to efficiently mimic real world skeletal systems for animation purposes. Use this tag for questions about armatures and rigging questions/issues.
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Heat Weighting: Failed to find solution for one or more bones
I cant figure out why I get problems rigging this mesh.
I get an error stating
Bone Heat Weighting: Failed to find solution for one or more bones
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How to make rig that reacts to gravity or seem to behave physically correct?
Here's a nice, strangely familiar hat. It's rigged with three bones.
Let's say I want the hat to fall like a real hat would, and bounce around when the character which it's attached to moves. I could ...
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Some vertices don't move along with the rig
I follow this tutorial which uses rigify and I have run into some issues.
Not every vertex moves along the rig. Any idea what could cause this? I applied the location and rotation for every object.
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How to Set/Calculate pole angle of IK constraint so the chain does not move?
How to calculate the exact pole angle so when I add Pole bone the IK chain does not move?
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How to rig a cartoon-style hose limb? (cartoon arm)
I was wondering if anyone knows how to set up a hose-like, cartoon-type limb like in this picture?
My current setup for my model's limbs uses Inverse Kinematics and actually works quite well for the ...
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Create pose from existing armature
I have two armatures with all of the same bones. Armature A is a basic character T-stance, Armature B is of a run animation. I had first attempted to copy the pose from Armature B to Armature A, but ...
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Is there any way to copy the weight of one bone over to another(forgot to use x-mirror)?
I solved my other problem and I finally got it to deform to an acceptable level. However now I'm having trouble, I forgot to activate x-mirror when weight painting and I got the weights right on one ...
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How to rig a shirt with buttons so that the buttons follow the mesh of the shirt
I didn't address this in a while because I was busy with something else, but now it has cycled back into my schedule.
Right now I have a shirt modeled and bones set in place. It's already technically ...
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character made with multiple objects one armature or different armatures
This is a character that I made in Blender with multiple objects
When I added an armature fist, and joined the object and test, it didn't work. Then I linked parent but that didn't work either.
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Rigging question about Spline IK and having all controls on one armature
So, i'm finally getting a handle on rigging in Blender and am doing pretty well except for one thing. My brother is doing the animating and had a few complaints/requests, so I went in and tried to fix ...
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Rig a rope spanning two objects
I am trying to rig a rope so that it spans between two objects. Technically it is a fuel line, regardless I am trying to get it to work with the soft-body physics, primarily because A, it will be ...
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How to rig a truck/trailer so that the trailer follows the truck
I am trying to rig a truck with a trailer so it can be animated along a path/curve. Having the trailer follow is not a problem, but in order to look realistic it shouldn't follow the exact path of the ...
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Rigify->Generate Rig doesn't create all rig layers in the properties ui
For some reason, after clicking Generate Rig for my armature I only get the following rig layers:
Torso, Fingers, Arm.L (IK), Arm.R (IK), Arm.R (FK), Arm.R (Tweak), Leg.L (IK), Leg.R (IK) buttons are ...
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Rigging an umbrella-like object
I'm trying to figure out the best way to rig this setup. I have several pipes arranged vertically, right next to each other. I want a rig where I can use a single controller to have them spread out at ...
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Rigging two handed weapon
I have created a model, which is meant to hold a two handed weapon, but I don't know how to make both hand to move with the weapon. The weapon only follows the right hand now. I want the left hand to ...
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Making wheels spin as car moves on local Y axis
I'd like to know how to make my car wheels rotate when a vehicle is moved forward in the local Y axis, regardless of what rotations on other axes the car may possess. This should specifically work ...
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Creating an eye/eyelid rig for dragon without shape keys
I've been creating a dragon lately and now trying to create a rig for my dragon. I've managed to create a basic rig for other body parts of my dragon, but I' m really stuck at creating eye and eyelid ...
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bone heat weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones error message
Here it goes again, the rigging error. I have a model that has a mirror modifier already applied and a subsurface and displace modifier (not applied) in my model. So when I try to parent my model to ...
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Joining 2 Armatures and keeping the weights
I have two separate Armatures that I want to join together. I have no problem combining the meshes, but the problem is the bones/rigs. When you do the Object mode > join, I lose all of my weight paint ...
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How to mirror a bone?
I can't find the bone mirror option.
When I used Blender about two years ago the mirror option was tucked away in the rig/object panels, but now I see no obvious options.
How can I mirror bones in 2....
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How can I copy one side of a rig to the other?
I need to mirror the half part of the rigging of my character, I remember it was something with the scale or rotation.. does anyone know which was the right solution step-to-step?
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Can I set my pose position like the new rest position?
I would like to move my armature from pose mode to another pose (a random one) and set the position I create like the new rest position. Is there a way in order to achieve this goal?
My armature is ...
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How to simulate Miura-fold
I'm hoping to find advice here for simulating the Miura origami in Blender. I have searched quite thoroughly on methods and have only come as far as my failed attempt in my attached image above. The ...
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How are bones & armatures connected to the rest of a model?
Let's say I'm really new to Blender, and have just barely figured out what keyframes are for. Explain a Blender skeleton to me like I'm five. Do I need to use it, and how exactly does it connect to ...
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How do rigs relate to weights?
I'm practicing rigging a finger. Why is the tip getting smaller when I rotate it? And hopefully someone has tips on rigging a hand/fingers.
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Precise Mechanical Rigging of two arms connected by a rod
https://youtu.be/86DtgBiUDvI
I have done this using the y-rotation of the Blue rod to drive its z-location. The Top rod is driven by the z-location of the Blue rod.
As you can see, the animation ...
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Robot arm move a box
I'm doing a simple robot arm that turns the arms around and do different movements. But I can't figure out how I should do if the robot should pick up something like a small box?
Should the box be ...
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How can I automatically generate vertex groups for an armature?
I've been trying to find this on the Blender Wiki, but I can't seem to find the details. I knew how to do it one time but I forgot how to do so now.
How do you generate vertex groups for individual ...
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How do I rig each blade to fan out like an aperture lens?
I'm new to blender so I've got loads to learn.
My problem at the moment is that I want to rig up each individual triangle, so that I can get it to fan out like a camera aperture. Can anyone help me ...
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Why does copy rotation constraint invert after 180 degrees
I'm try to rig a low poly clock for blender, so I added a copy rotation constraint so the minute hand would automatically spin with the second hand, but when I rotate the second hand 180 degrees, the ...
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Rigify : skin overlapping clothes
so i know this is a weightpainting issue, but i have no confidence in my weighpainting skills, so whenever i try to fix it it just comes out worse and the deformation gets worse for some reason. can ...
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How to get disconnected teeth and beard to move with rigged face?
So I'm trying to weight paint but can't seem to get my teeth and beard on the character to move with his head on two different bones, I have tried to move the head then weight paint it so that it gets ...
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What is the ideal topology for a shoulder joint?
Modeling the shoulder joint of humanoid models is often a sticking point for me, due to the many degrees of freedom a shoulder has, and when rigged, my shoulders often pinch badly. What sort of edge ...
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What does abbreviations like DEF, MCH, CTRL, WGT stands for in rigging?
I often download the .blend files with the rigged characters. There are some abbreviations like DEF, MCH, CTRL, WGT in front of the bone's names (like e.g. MCH-counter_spin). I guess what all of them ...
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Hook/parent/constrain to particle hair?
Is there any way to hook, parent, or constraint something to a vertex of a particle hair strand? Such as a hair accessory dangling from a braid that needs to move with the hair?
Converting the hair ...
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How to combine various armatures?
I put together an armature for a four legged creature, but I had to make each leg armature separate. I now want to combine them into one armature. Is there an easy way to do this?
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Trying to rig a Map
I'm trying to make a "simple" accordion map in Blender 2.79, for animated and still render purposes.
I will map graphics onto each face, and I don't want the faces to get stretched/distorted.
I do ...
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Model won't follow its armature in pose mode
I've set up a rig and built it around my model, and I've linked it to my model but when I rotate the bones in pose mode, the character doesn't move with them.
My rig is the human meta rig that comes ...
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Rigify finger controls rotation not moving correctly
I have a humanoid mesh and created a meta rig with rigify. All goes according plan except after skinning the mesh the fingers don't behave as they should when scaling the finger controls (wanting to ...
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Custom Rotation for a tilted aircraft flap
I've been modeling an F-15, but when I rotate the flaps on Y-Axis the Flaps offset from the wing and they look like they are about to fall out, so I end up correcting it by rotating in the X and Z-...
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Fixing Descending stairs walk from mixamo
The issue here is the descending animations from Mixamo.
(You will need an Adobe login to download the animation.)
The floor doesn't move as the legs are moving down, I have to manually fix every ...
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Child Of Constraint Set Inverse with Python
When I try to use the "set inverse" operator in python there comes an error that it missed a context called "constraint". But I did it exactly like in the Info Panel.
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Bones are deforming the mesh at different rates. Is there a way to fix this?
When trying to control the eyelid and eyelashes mesh (both are part of the same mesh although the eyelashes are not attached to the rest of the head). Moving the gaze bone up causes the eyelids to ...
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How to make a Text File dependent of an Armature object so that it appends with it to other projects?
If you ever used BlenRig, you may have noticed that it pops up a text file in your text editor called "generate_customprops.py". This is a python script that the rig uses for various purposes such as ...
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Rigify armature won't move my mesh
I made a low poly model and I parented the Rigify armature using automatic weights. i
It deformed weirdly and I doubt it's my topology since it's very basic. I used solutions that worked with my other ...
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Rigify automatically link UI text file in 2.8
Rigify rigs rely on their rig_ui.py file to generate the addon's interface. If you link a character collection into a new file and proxy the rig, the UI does not generate because the rig_ui.py file is ...
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How to animate falling feathers?
I think that this animation is possible in blender with a rig, yes?
Rig or is there another way?
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Make bone roll match a face/vertex normal?
I am working on a script that generates bones down an edge or face loop. I have figured out how to create a bone and move its head and tail into position at the top and bottom of a face, or onto a ...
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Animate the parenting of an object
let's say we have a magazine, a gun, and hands.
The magazine is parented with the gun. When I make an animation of reloading, I want the Magazine to be a parent of the hand, then after the magazine ...
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How can I rig a cylinder so that when it's rotated its end cap will not penetrate the floor?
I have a default Blender cylinder positioned upright atop a ground plane:
How can I rig the cylinder so that can be animated to wiggle/jitter (perhaps procedurally with noise f-curve modifiers on two ...
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