Pose Library Thumbnails & Selection Sets
- Training
- 14 Mar 2018
- 1 min read
Animators, this is for you! New videos have been added to the Character Animation training. Hjalti shows the two most essentials tools when animating.
Selection Sets
When using complex rigs (such as BlenRig), the animator is left to use the Armature's layer system to show/hide bones. So it's up to the rigger, but what if the animator wants a specific set of bones from a bunch of layers? You can use Selection Sets to store that selection, name it, hide the rest, done! Check out how Hjalti uses this awesome tool in production:
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Pose Library Thumbnails
Once you select your bones, it's time to build a pose. Blender has a built-in Pose Library system, but it's lacking a few features that are essential for animation, mainly: thumbnails. This will be tackled in Blender 2.8 with the new asset manager, but for the time being this handy little add-on will make your life easier.
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So in the end these add-ons are not only for character animation, with a bit of imagination you can use it for anything with an armature, really. Give them a try!
8 comments
good morning, I've searched everywhere but I can't find a way to select multiple selection sets of the rig at the same time, for example both legs or arms without having to make other selection sets that include the 2 legs
Hi! I tried installing in blender 2.79 and 2.82a but for some reason, I can not find it in add on tab.
@Abdul Fahim Please visit https://blender.chat/channel/blender-cloud for questions like this. These comments aren't the right place to debug such things.
Hi All! Im having trouble getting this addon to work under 2.80. It seems to install fine, but does not show up on the addon list and does not show in the pose library menu. what am i doing wrong?
@Stan Heitmueller Please visit https://blender.chat/channel/blender-cloud for questions like this. Blender 2.80 currently is a fast-moving target and these comments aren't the right place to discuss the details.
Cannoi start the video it are just pictures ?
@Anton Francesco just fixed it
Hey where is the selection sets addon to get that handy little menu that sybren made?, would be nice if it was a part of the official selection sets add-on and that it would come bundled with it Also as a side note, would be really nice to have these and the agent characters in the character library and maybe make a scripts / tools library for things that wont be included in blender itself. Dunno just saying :)
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