Rigging

Tools to aid in character creation and animation

Tool panel

Location

Object Builder tab in the 3D viewport sidebar.

Properties

• Skeletons: list of skeleton definitions

• Bones: bones of the selected skeleton

The skeleton name, bone and bone parent names can be edited in place by double-clicking.

Editing is disabled for protected skeletons in order to prevent accidental changes.

Weight Painting sub-panel:

• Threshold: selection weight pruning threshold

Operators

• Add Skeleton: add new skeleton to the list

• Remove Skeleton: remove selected skeleton from the list

• Skeleton From Armature: create skeleton from the selected armature object

• Add OFP2_ManSkeleton: adds the OFP2_ManSkeleton definition to the list

• Validate: check skeleton for circular references, missing parents, non-ASCII bone names

• Validate For RTM: check if all bone names are shorter than 32 characters, otherwise Validate

• Delete All Skeletons: remove all skeletons from the list

• Add Bone: add bone to the selected skeleton

• Remove Bone: remove selected bone from the selected skeleton

• Move Bone: move bone up or down in hierarchy

• Make Lowercase: turn all bone and parent bone names to lowercase

• Delete All Bones: remove all bones from the selected skeleton

• Pivots From Armature: create pivot points mesh from selected armature

Weight Painting sub-panel:

Most of the operators below are only available if a skeleton definition is selected in the list.

• Select Overdetermined: select vertices that are assigned to more than 4 bones

• Select Unnormalized: select vertices with not normalized bone weights

• Prune Overdetermined: prune the weakest assigned bones from vertices to a maximum of 4 remaining

• Normalize Weights: normalize the bone weights on all vertices

• Prune Selections: prune bones with less weight than the Threshold from vertices

• General Cleanup: cleanup procedure conisisting of the above functions in order:

  1. Prune Selections

  2. Prune Overdetermined

  3. Normalize Weights

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Process

In order to only influence the actual bone selections, and exclude the selections intended for hiddenSelections, a skeleton definition is needed. The selections that cannot be matched to any bone in the skeleton are not affected.