Blender 4x Lazy Bones v1.0

Blender 4x Lazy Bones v1.0

Blender 4x Lazy Bones v1.0

WHAT IS Lazy Bones?

Lazy Bones is a tool kit to speed up bone creation and placement when rigging.

– Convert selected edges to bones

– ‘Auto’ create skeletons using Simulation Nodes

Quick bone clean up functions

WHO IS THIS FOR?

The addon was originally made for me! I was trying to rig a ladder-like structure on some character pants. It was a nightmare.

I wanted a faster solution than placing bones by hand since I knew I was soon going to rig a necklace later.

BEGGINER RIGGERS

Can use the addon to help rig complex shapes that otherwise seem impossible.

ADVANCED Can use the addon to help get a head start on

RIGGERS

bone placement before manually adjusting.

The original problem pants

GIVE A DOG A BONE

Typical workflow using Lazy Bones

(workflow varies mesh to mesh, watch the videos for full examples and limitations)

1 – Simulate a basic skeleton’ of edges using ‘Mesh 2 Edges’.

2 – Use ‘Sim Clean Up’ to snap verts to center, remove small edges, resample edges lengths and remove edge intersections. Apply these fixes.

3 – Select all edges in EDIT mode and convert the edges to bones with one click.

4. – Use the ‘Bone Doctor’ tools to set bone rolls, bone directions and symmetrize – all from OBJECT mode.

5. Refine bone placement manually.

The result of simulated bone placement before manual refinement.

1 – – MESH-2-EDGE SIMULATION

(EXPERIMENTAL*)

The simulation plays. The mesh ‘shrinks’ into itself. When you get results you like, hit ‘Apply’ and the simulation ends. It won’t look too pretty yet, that comes with Clean Up modifiers.

Ø frames

10 frames

50 frames

150 frames

etc

https://blendermarket.com/products/lazy-bones?search_id=33801376

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