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What sort of presets? Sounds like a rigging tutorial would be helpful for people, and the end of the video shows you how to rig, but there's also a lot of quality tutorials out there on assigning weights that are separate from the kinematic tool procedure.

@@slephy Like rigify you have a human armadure or quadruped.

@@spittingame4241 Not currently, unless you're just using auto-rig pro to assemble your base deformation bones, then the Kinematic Tool can build on top of that.

@@slephy I see. Thank you.

@@Hyruleearth If I understand the problem properly, it sounds like you haven't setup the parenting properly. Check the chapter of this video on rigging. There's a section on parenting. Let me know if it's a different issue.

@@slephyThank you. I still think it's something I messed up but when I set up generic IK on my limbs they work correctly. Before setting up the kinematics tool and this problem occurring, I had already rigged and then used the kinematic tool once. That first setup, I believe I rigged some things incorrectly because after using the kinematics tool all the targets were pointing in the wrong direction. So I deleted the rig and started again. Now everything points the right way when I set it up but I have this new problem that I mentioned. Could my problem be caused but not deleting the kinematics tool setup correctly? I think I completely deleted everything but there's a very real chance I missed things. Other problems that I've seamed to cause are the auto update for FK to IK positions.

@@Hyruleearth if you deleted everything and started from scratch, it shouldn't be a problem. Simplify your problem by first getting it to work on just a limb and working out from there, or even just creating a standalone three-bone armature and playing around with it. It's possible you're overlooking something.

@@slephy Thanks for that info. I can get it to work on any limb that isn't connected to anything and it's leading me to think it's something like "keep offset" that isn't working. When making a limb that all works correctly its just the following the parents part that isn't working. I created a new rig in the same project and am still having the same issue. if you have any other thought's I'm happy to give them a try?

@@Hyruleearth have you watched the rigging section of this video that explains parenting, or checked the rigging section of the user manual that explains parenting?

Hmm, if you're just building off of a base deformation layer, then yes. But I wouldn't recommend building off of their mechanical assemblies. Lotta peeps have recommended some sort of conversion, so I'm aware it would be a useful addition to the tool.

@@slephy yeah. Most Animators dont like rigging so they use automatic rigging tools so would be really cool if we can just add these functions to rigify or auto rig pro! Cheers on making such a great tool 🙏

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I spent about a year on v2.

This can assemble on any 3-bone chain. I recommend assembling it on the deformation layer.

You can rig the assembly on a base layer, like a deformation layer.

You can build on your deformation bones.

@@slephy so is possible to use on top like a layer intested of remake everything, like a editing but for ik. That's cool thxx 🙏🏻

Thank goodness

Not currently, you'll need to use the rigging options within the Kinematic Tool to get access to the features.

Not currently

All in time :)

Also, the elbo can only rotate 180 degrees in fk, +/-90. Is there something o can do to enable another -70 degrees (the - direction is the natural bend. The + is broken elbow direction)?

With a bone selected in edit mode, ctrl+r allows you to twist the bone. The Kinematic Tool assembles the joint and bend depending on the direction the joint is pointing, no matter what axis you decide to bend on.

@@slephy Thank you! I've got one more question but first, that made a massive difference. So it's controlled by the "Roll" parameter by the look of it. For some reason it also fixed the forearm to have the 180 degree constraint like how you'd imagine. For my question, I'm doing anime style animations that tend to exaggerate range of motion/hyper extend joints in the animations but the elbow limit of 180 degrees prevents that. Is there a way for the user to edit that limit?

@@Hyruleearth In pose mode, select the FK middle bone and go to the constraints. There you'll find a Limit Rotation constraint. You can edit or remove it, but snapping (aka aligning) is unlikely to work properly. Also, you can scale bones, but if you scale on individual axes, the snapping is also unlikely to work properly.

@@slephy Thank you! I appreciate the help.

I don't like the paypal arrangement at the moment, but perhaps in the future.

Sounds good, that type of video would definitely be useful :)

@@slephy Awesome! If there’s a high likelihood of you making that video in the next three months I could move onto other parts of my game while i wait for it to release. Is it something that you could see possibly happening in that time? I totally get you’re probably busy and there’s now way to know for sure but I thought I’d ask as I’m behind on other parts of the game that I could spend time on while waiting for your video. No worries if you can’t say anything just yet as well.

@@Hyruleearth I don't make promises, but that looks like something I'll be able to do in the next few months. Others have requested this as well.

Any model, check my most recent video "The Why & The How - Kinematic Tool..."

@@slephy well its pretty lengthy 😅 thanks for answer thou! ^^

@@soirema lololol

Haha thanks :) very kind of you

@@wolflyset 😎

@@pks001 It depends on how much rigging you need to finish the rest of the body and head. The Kinematic Tool rigs only 3-bone chains for Ik/Fk switching, such as arms and legs.

​​@@slephythanks for the reply. I am planning to purchase this addon. Is there a video on how to setup this addon rig

@@pks001 Yes check out my most recent video "The Why & The How - Kinematic Tool for Blender..." The last chapter of the video covers rigging.

yeah lol it's been quite a ride getting it to this point. I'm glad others find value in it as well :)

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@@TeacupPotato Yeah this is made to be easy to use, so if you have some basic knowledge in both animation and rigging, you'll get value out of it.

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Thanks! Gotta help out my international animators :P