Questions tagged [rigify]
Rigify is a bundled addon that provides a ready made character rig with custom controls. It is designed to help build full character rigs with a building block approach.
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Blender metarig to Unreal Engine
I am making a game using Blender3D and Unreal Engine and have a three part question:
1) When exporting a human character from Blender3D to Unreal Engine after having used a the Human Metarig (with ...
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Python Script Fix for 2.8 Rigify [closed]
How could I write a script to find all bones that are using a custom shape and enable wire-frame on them, so I don't have to do it manually for like 100+ bones. I'm not that good with Python.
I had ...
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Rigging and auto weight painting not working
I have no doubles, my normals are outward, rig is lined up, but the rig isn't actually deforming the model at all and auto weight painting isn't doing anything.
Can someone take a look at my file ...
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Importing rigify 2.79 rigs into 2.80
When trying to import a rigify rigged character from 2.79 to 2.80, the shapes disappear. Currently, the only way I know to retrieve them, is to go through the outliner, bone by bone and turn on ...
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rigify: how to tell which bones will ik
I inserted the rigify basic human metarig and went into pose and it Iks fine on the big bones but pulling on the little bones simply moves them. They aren't attached or constrained and moving them ...
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Fine tune your rig in rigify
I want to fine tune my rig from rigfy. How do I make the fingers bend all at the same time, rotate the forearm to rotate with the hand (and things like that). Is that all in the rig property? And in ...
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Rigify moves twice as far as mesh?
I'm building a modular animatable child for a school project.
I can't figure out why my rig does this, but every pose ball and limb piece moves twice as far as the rig which makes it much harder to ...
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Is there a non-destructive way to split parts of an armature?
I noticed when i seperate a bone branch (consisting of bbones), the bones of the new seperated armature all lose their predifined start-and end handles.
Is there a way do seperate armatures in a non-...
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Can I show a custom rig layer on rigify properties panel?
So I had some extra drivers and shapes added to my rig I moved them to a different skeleton layer so I can hide them when I dont want to animate them. I really like the Rig layer panel on the ...
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rig not working properly
I have more or less finally rigged this character. However one of the gloves will not move (not a huge issue as I can work around this in the animation) however, the shoes are not working properly. ...
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Add extra control to rigify?
I am using rigify and it works great, but I also want to add an empty sphere, that will allow me move part of the clothe, for example on this photo:
But I also want when I create the extra bone from ...
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Do i pose the root bone too?
So this is more like a best practice question. I tried doing a walk cycle by creating a walk action and then repeating it in NLA editor over a root bone position change. But this looks very mechanical,...
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Rigging in rigify for custom rig
I got a question. How do I create custom rigs in rigify made from an armature that I didn't rig to a mesh yet but I created the armature? I believe I would be able to do this because I read somewhere ...
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Generate Rig Problem
When I try to generate a rig (Blender's built-in rig, meta rig) it causes an error. How do I fix this?
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Removing Doubles Ruins Mesh of My Character
I created a character in blender. I tried to parent it to the rig but it says "bone heat weighting failed to find solution for one or more bones". After more than two days of research and restarting ...
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Rigify stops generating rig after Key Error for a DEF Cheek bone
I'm rigging a dragon. I've used the cat rig since that is the base rig that has the most dragon like facial features i want. I've adjusted the bones and such, added new ones manually for the wings and ...
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Can't use Automatic weights
I want to rig and use automatic weights to a robot.
The problem is that when I try to choose Armature Deform with automatic weights, I get error:
Bone Heat weighting: failed to find solution for one ...
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Error at Rigify Buttons!
I still have this error!Please tell me what to do next, step by step?
I'm working on the 2-77-64-bit blender
Windows 7 Home Premium
Must to look like this, after I press Rigify Buttons
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when I add IK, my bone moves out of place in Blender 2.8
please see the picture, after adding IK the bone is moving out of my character, please help.
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Using rigify armature, how do I create a control for eye color?
I am using a rigify armature for my character and all works great, but I also want to create an extra control for the eye colors, Like for example to make a nurbs circle that I can move to left and ...
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The WGTS_Rig items, OK to DELETE them for better Performance
As per my screenshot, can anyone give me an idea what the items do, and deleting them gives me a good increase in Viewport Performance even when they are hidden!!
or the layer is turned off...
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Setting up a linked rigged character
So, I have a best practice question. I created a few characters in their separate files. Rigged them using rigify, created a pose library for rubharb lip sync. Next, i linked that character to a ...
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From Rigify to Auto-Rigger Pro Workflow issue
I want to create a "Rigify/Mixamo to ARP3.4 to UE4 animation workflow.
I've used "Pro-Rig/Smart" to get re-target SkelMeshes for UE4, but now I'm trying to re-target animations I made in Rigify and ...
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Having problem with rigify
Can anyone tell me how to append a character rigged with rigify properly from one blend file to another, cause I tried to append it and it's not working properly.
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My mesh is pink in weight painting
I am trying to weight paint my rigged character (rigify add on used). But it is completely pink when i select the custom shapes. But I can see weights when i click on individual vertex group. Also ...
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Better to add extra bones before or after generate rig
Im using rigify addon and plan to add some shape keys and some drivers later on like for facial expressions and talking. Is it a good idea to add those driver bones to the metarig before I click ...
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Why won't Rigify deform my High Poly Mesh?
probably sounds like a silly question that has already been answered 1000 times, but I've read through previous forums and none have been able to answer my question.
I recently downloaded a free ...
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Trouble with rigify: Can someone rig for me? [closed]
hellooo guuuys im new to the world of animation.
i use bforartists because its easy to use instead of that hotkey blender crap. so my problem is. i work on an female character and i have riged her ...
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How to open closed eyelids on pre made models
I'm "kind of" new to Blender and rigging/animation in general, but I like to jump out in the deep part of the pool. (Sorry)
What I mainly want to do is rigging and animation, so I've kind of not paid ...
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Rigify IK problem in Blender 2.8
So I was testing rigify in 2.8 and I was not able to make the IK working. I just add metarig, Generate the rig right away and IK is not working - hands and knees are not bending as expected. All the ...
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Rigify Finger assigned to different parent
I am having a problem with the rigify addon. After I generate the rig, everything works perfectly except the finger bone f_middle.01.L (it doesn't respond to the ...
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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.
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Just give me some tips to improve my rig. You can ...
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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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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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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 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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Rigify Rig is no longer editible
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I made the mistake of saving my project in 2.8, this broke the project (crashes in 2.79). thus, I created a new project (2.79) and 'appended' the old project's data (text, texture, mesh, ...
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Rigify rig not visibe in blender 2.8
Firstly I understand that blender 2.8 is a release candidate, that being said...
I modeled and rigged my character in 2.79, opened it in 2.8. it seems odd to me that the rig isn't visible. I can see ...
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Rigify in Blender 2.79
I don´t like the rigify in Blender 2.79. I think it generates too much complicated controls and whenever I had to rig a character I have to open the file in an older version, play the rigify generator ...
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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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Adjusting rig after generation (Rigify)
I'm not an English speaker, sorry for mistakes.
I spend several weeks to create my first character, but few days ago i figured out that rig is set up incorrectly. Severals manipulator have wrong ...
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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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How to merge vertices of a ripped model?
After I spent like 2 hours rigging a model with riggify I've realized the model I've ripped the other day has the articulations unmerged (shoulders, knees, etc), after moving one arm.
Is it possible ...
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Is there a way to affect the bone hierarchy generated by rigify?
The standard human metarig of rigify 0.5 (blender 2.79) is great. It has its root node at the hips and from there the node hirarchy is built following the spine up to the chest with its shoulders and ...
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can't add more than one armature?
i want to ask,
so i make more than 1 character in one scene and then i tried to generate rig for my second rig, it didn't want to. and it always go back to my first rig.
i can't add controller to my ...
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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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Suggestion for creating templates for my characters animations with Meta-rigs?
hi everyone I am working on a lowpoly proyect.
I would starting to rigging and skinng all my 3D characters . I ve finished all them all.
I ve divided 3 class of models for PC game.
main ...
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What's the difference between the different Rig Types ? (Rigify add-on)
I've made a metarig (a ready-to-use skeleton) for a character mesh and I've added some extra bones for the feet (my character has long floppy flippers). For each new bone, I need to assign a "Rig type"...
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Can we add or remove bones to a Metarig with Rigify add-on?
I'm adjusting a metarig (a skeleton) for a bipedal character mesh with the Rigify add-on. But I want to remove the metarig's bones for the face and add some bones for the feet (my character has long ...
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Rigify horse armature: hind leg bones seem wrong; tweak also on wrong layer?
I tried configurate the armature after I saw it was kind of broken. What I did was only to rename a few hind leg bones and subdivide one, because that joint was missing in the preset. As I read in the ...
