caiwan / cai-blender-rigtools

Rigging tools for blender based on The Art of Effective Rigging course by Pierrick Picaut.

cai-blender-rigtools

Rigging tools for blender based on The Art of Effective Rigging course by Pierrick Picaut.

This addon helps automatize certain steps which had to be done manually during the rigging worklow.

Note: Due to its convoluted nature, for automated rigging it is advised to use Rigify or other tools instead of this. There may be a a Rigify feature set plugin made for this in the future. This is an experimental addon, use at your own risk.

Installation

• Download the repository
• Copy cai_rigtools folder into Blender scripts/addons/ directory
• Enable addon Caiwan Rig Tools Blender in settings

Usage

Once the addon is enabled a sub-menu Rig Tools should be added in edit mode under Armature menu and pose mode under Pose menu.

Edit mode

Create Target rig

Creates a copy of the selected deformation rig then applies copy constraints to it. The reason for that is this second rig can be manipulated freely with any complex mechanism but the original deforming rig can be completely detached. This helps exporting the rig later.

1. Select the bones to be copied
2. Armature -> Rig Tools -> Create Target Rig
3. The newly created bones are remain selected

Then these bones can be moved freely ot another layer.

Create bone lever rig

Create tail rig

Create tentacle rig

Pose mode

Clear all constraints

Clears of all assigned constraints from the selected bones

Development

TBD