利用者:Mont29/NewAnimation/RiggingDetails

Well, here there’s some work…

We only talk here about rigging/skinning/etc, no animation. Anyway, animating bones of armatures is not much different than animating standard objects…

This is the part I know less, so I should learn much while writing/updating it! But this also implies it is the one most likely to change over writing process! Anyway, I think this is a rather good starting point…

--Mont29 11:56, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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Page title	Old page	New page
Introduction
Introduction	Doc:Manual/Animation/Armatures	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging
	=Introduction= Rapid intro about armatures (their uses), skinning and posing (armature modes). Plan of whole chapter. Insist on armatures being useful not only for animation, but also to statically deform (pose) objects…
Armature Objects
Armatures	Doc:Manual/Animation/Armatures/Object mode	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Armatures
	=Armatures= Intro about armatures themselves. Few words about armature in object mode (same possibilities/features as other object types). Plan of this sub-section. ==Visualization== X-ray, layers, axes/names/shapes/colors… Hiding bones.
Armature Structure	NEW	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Armatures/Structure
	In this page we only talk about general ideas/principles. Crosslinks to each topic’s relevant page. =Armature Structure= Intro: Types (octahedron/stick/B-bone), bones, chains of bones… ==Bones== Head, tail, “weights”/envelopes… ==Chains of Bones== Relations between bones (parent/connected/IK…).
Selecting	NEW	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Armatures/Selecting
	=Selecting Bones= Two selection “types”: whole bones, and heads/tails. How they interact. ==Selecting Whole Bones== How to select whole bones (rmb, linked bones, …). ==Selecting Bones Heads and Tails== How to select bones’ heads and tails…
Editing	Doc:Manual/Animation/Armatures/Edit mode	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Armatures/Editing
	In this page I should use crosslinks to Modeling chapter (hopefully in its new version!), since many editing techs are similar/the same as those for vertices… It might become quite big (in which case I might split it, with an additional “Editing Properties” page, for names, layers, chains, …). =Editing Bones= Intro. Locking bone editing. The X-axis mirror option. Crosslink to Etch-a- ton page. ==Adding Bones== Extruding, ctrl-lmb, duplicating, … ==Deleting Bones Deleting, merging. ==Transforming Bones== Grab/move/rotate of whole bone(s), grab of heads/tails… Influence of bones relations. Snapping. ==Inserting Bones== Fill between joints, subdivides… ==Bone Roll== How to control bone roll angle. ==Chain Editing== How to control/modify bone chains (aka parent/child bones). ==Using Layers== Moving bones to layers… ==Naming== The auto-naming features… ==Properties== Weight, Segments (for B-Bones, also In and Out in Pose mode – sic!), Hinge… A sub-part for Envelopes properties (dist, head/tail radius).
Etch-a-ton	NEW	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Armatures/Editing/EtchATon
	=Etch-a-ton= Intro, presentation of this tool/method (simple creation of whole bone chains). ==Drawing Chains== Drawing. Visualization (future bones, …). ==Converting to Bones== Converting to bones. Sub-parts for each conversion methods (Fixed, Adaptive, Length and Template)
Skinning
Skinning	NEW	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Skinning
	=Skinning= Intro about skinning. Two types (to meshes/lattice/curves/… vertices/edit points, and to objects themselves). Plan of this sub-section.
Linking Objects to Bones	NEW	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Skinning/Objects
	=Linking Objects to Bones= Intro. ==Process== Need to be in Pose mode. Stress similarities with standard object parenting. To possibilities: “old” bone parenting, and using Child of constraint.
Skinning to Objects’ Shapes	Doc:Manual/Animation/Armatures/Mesh Skin Weighting	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Skinning/ObData
	=Skinning to Shapes= Intro. How bones affect shapes. ==Common Options== Mult (using envelopes and vertex groups together), Quaternion, B-Bone Rest… ==Envelopes== The Base skinning behavior, working with meshes/curves/ surfaces/texts/lattices ==Vertex Groups== A skinning behavior available for meshes and lattices only. Weights. Groups names. etc.
Posing
Posing	Doc:Manual/Animation/Armatures/Pose mode	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Posing
	=Posing= Intro about posing, pose mode (something like “object mode for bones”), rest position. “pose library” i.e. actions; bone groups. Few words about needing of quaternions in rotations. Using Ipo, Actions, NLA (crosslinks). Few words about advanced features (IK, Action NLA modifier, Stride). Plan of this sub-section.
Visualization	NEW	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Posing/Visualization
	=Visualization= Intro. ==Colors== bone “types” (i.e. action, IK, constraint, …) bone group. ==Shapes== How to give a specific shape to a bone. ==Ghosts== Display of ghost frames… ==Curves== Display of temporal motion curves…
Editing	NEW	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Posing/Editing
	=Editing Poses= Intro. Similarities with animation of objects (each bone being like an object). ==Basics== Grab/rotate/scale of bones, inserting keys (i.e. poses). Rest Position, Delay Deform options. ==Pose Library== Using actions as pose libraries. The pose markers in Action editor. The pose library controls in Link and Material panel.
Using Constraints	NEW	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Posing/Constraints
	=Applying Constraints to Bones= Intro. Generalities about controlling bones’ possible movements (i.e. degree of freedom, DoF) with constraints. Crosslinks to Action and IK pages.
Inverse Kinematics	Doc:Manual/Animation/Armatures/Inverse Kinematics	Meta:Sandbox/NewAnimation/Manual/Rigging/Posing/IK
	=Inverse Kinematics= Intro. Two types (with and without targets). Chain of bones. ==Auto IK== “Simplest” IK tool, only useful for creating poses. No extra options. ==Targetless IK== The IK constraint without target. Also only a posing tool, but with rotation control on each bone of the chain. ==Standard IK== IK constraint with target. No need of posing bones in the chain (even though it is possible), but rather to animate the target (another, non-related bone, or another object). ==Controlling Bone Rotation and Scale== How to control/limit each bone’s rotation and scale in an IK chain.
Animation Editors – MOVED TO ANIMATION SECTION
The Action Editor	Doc:Manual/Animation/Armatures/The Action Editor	MOVED TO ANIMATION SECTION
Non Linear Animation	Doc:Manual/Animation/Armatures/Non Linear Animation	MOVED TO ANIMATION SECTION