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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 3 bones

  • Select Unnormalized: select vertices with not normalized bone weights

  • Prune Overdetermined: prune the weakest assigned bones from vertices to a maximum of 3 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

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.

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