Tutorial: Human Meta Rig - Blender 3.0
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ค. 2021
- This is a step by step guide to setting up the human meta rig in Blender 3.0 Alpha. This tutorial is not about how to use the controls of the rig, but rather how to line up the rig, generate the controls, and parent the system to the mesh of a human model.
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it is insane how many problems i have with blender that nobody else ever had XD I wish i had a mentor, i hate learning stuff without anyone to ask...
i would go on Discord or hire someone to mentor you for like $10, $15 a hour, thats why i did . only do it if youre serious of course
I finally able to understand how rigging works. Its great how you have mentioned every shortcut each steps, which makes it so easy to understand. Keep it up!
I've been messing up the rigs for almost a year now and there was no progress. And now I am astonished to see my rig working . Thank you for a major progress in my 3d journey 😭😭. IDK why I am being so emotional.
I really appreciate the quick, step by step instruction. No fluff, to the point, but still thorough. Thank you!!
I was struggling with rigging a character for 2-3 weeks. tried every tutorial, nothing worked. followed your tutorial and BAMM 15 minutes later, I did it. I still can't exactly tell what was causing me problems in the first place, but who cares! I did it! Thank You!!!!!
Absolutely WONDERFUL, helpful explanation for someone who still has the downloaded installation package for Blender in his Downloads folder. I was able to follow this and amaze my wife with "moving characters" in about an hour. Someone who knows blender much better will most likely only take half that time.
I've watched TONS of videos about rigging, but without success, finally I've been able to rig a character, thanks!
I've been having so many problems with rigging and all the other tuitorials weren't help. You mention scaling the mesh and metarig and all my problem have gone. Thank you so much.
Passed a year after the release of this video and it remains the best auto-rig tutorial on the platform!!!
You saved me.... What to say, this tutorial is brilliant, just the thing I needed to fix the weights.... Thank you
Best rigging tutorial I’ve found so far! Thanks!
This is the best rigging tutorial I've seen. Thank you!
Awesome Tutorial, was trying my first RIG and BINGO I managed to get it right first time around. Great Tutorial!!!!
I know it is going to be great content as always :)
Truly SUPERB tutorial for an important feature. Thanks!
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Amazing!!! Best Meta Rig tutorial!!!!! thanks a lot for the tips!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Helped a lot!
big help, thanks
Thanks for your excellent tutorial!
Thanks for the tutorial, I'll try to put it into practice
Finally got it to work! thanks my dude, but freaking hell, I hate rigging. still cant do this for my main character model yet though
Cheers for the help!
This is fantastic, thank you!
This is wat i want. Really great job. thx
great tutorial, i love it
Good refresher course thank you
Love it! Thanks!!
Thanks, I solved two months' worth of problems in two days.
Good video. Thank you.
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it is tooo easy thanks for the tutorial bro!
Like many others I had the same issue where I was getting warnings when parenting my mesh to the armature. I also had the issue where the mesh would move with the armature when I was in Object Mode, but it would not move when I moved control curves in Edit Mode!
What worked for me was to first merge by distance (mentioned previously by many others) and then, most importantly, to scale up my model which I want to parent to my armature.
Remember to reset the scale on your model after you've scaled it up. You will also need to reset scale to deltas on your armature after scaling it up (or it will deform).
In general this whole workaround is a little bit lame, as my character was 1.6m tall. I noticed that the parenting only started to work once my model was over 5 meters tall...
I have resorted to making my character x10 larger so that I can work with different units between different apps. It's a bit of a nuisance until this issue is fixed.
TLDR: Scale up your mesh/armature and try again. Reset scale on mesh, reset scale to deltas on armature. If you want to re-do it you can press alt-p to unparent.
BTW, rigify for some strange reason will only work on characters taller than 3 m aprox! Characters below 2m will keep getting the "bone heat weighting" error. Just scale to 3m both parts, freeze scale on geometry and skeleton and then it works! 🤔
thanks a ton!!! everything but the feet worked- way ahead of where I was thanks to you
i like it when u explain what does what
11:42 If you get the error: "Heat Weighting: Failed to find solution for one or more bones" - which only appears briefly at the bottom of the viewport - check if you have duplicate vertices. I ran into the same problem. The solution: select the figure (only), and in Edit Mode: Mesh (Menu) -> Clean Up -> Merge by Distance, then try again. It should work.
Many thanks dude
ty ty ty tysm!! you're a real life saver on that one!
thanks, gonna try that right away
sadly this does not work with my other model... so weird...
@@kirisuma2186 Is it that "Heat Weighting" error you're getting? BTW, I've found that this is not the universal fix for all of this genre of issues, unfortunately. I had a model that actually had intersecting mesh (mesh that penetrated other mesh) and the problem was so bad I abandoned that model as "too-hard basket". There may be other issues with a mesh - not sure how well it manages ngons - that Rigify simply can't grok.
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How do you fix/prevent mesh tears? Not sure if it's my handywork or the model I'm using but I can't move the rig a great deal without tearing the model itself
Me resolvio el error que tenia y eso es suficiente.....Psdt: ((tenia varios dias con ese error)).... GRACIAS Y BUEN VIDEO
11:52 You don't need to isolate the DEF bones, select all the pose bones and Rigify has already selected which bones will affect the deformation.
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13:15 For those on a Mac and are following along to this tutorial: Alt+H would be the same as Command+H.
Hi , I had a doubt about the rig feature.
I have made a pose with a rigged human model which i want to export into keyshot and render. But when i tab put of pose mode into object mode the Model resets itself. How do i make the pose permanent(so that the mesh changes into the pose I have made permanently as i have to export it into keyshot)
I have tried applying pose as rest pose but to no avail. Any help would be great!
Everything works perfectly up to 13:20 ... I have my mesh parented to the weight bones, i hide the layer and try to use the rig to move my character but it moves without the character... like I never parented it... anybody knows the solution to this???
...But when I go back to Object Mode I can move my Rig and the Objects follows... so it is definitely parented, i just cant deform it somehow... i hope somebody can help me :(
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same error here...
Is there a way to use the simple version with finger joints from the more complex one? OR remove the face bone from the complex one? Not sure if that will still work
You could probably just separate all the hand bones from the complex rig and join them with the simple rig. As long as they're parented correctly after you join them it should work fine.
11:30 you actually can just parent it outright, and it works great 👍
Saludo yo tengo un pequeño problema y es este. Yo cree mi propio personaje y le puse el metaring igual que el video pero al momento de vincular el personaje con el rig me dice; Error, Bone heat eaighting: falled find solution for one or more bones..
me puedes decir que puedo hacer
Hello, and thank you. I am getting stuck at the "Hold Shift and Select the Deformation bones". Mind do not select. However, I know I have deformation bones as I checked them in Bone Properties earlier in the video. As such, I cannot get the option for Automatic Weights, under Command P until I can figure out where I messed up. Any help trouble shooting would be very much appreciated.
If I wanted to add something extraneous such as wings or tail, at what point should I add those bones?
Thank you SO much for the tutorial. I’m totally stuck! Have a model with an outline and the rig only rigged to the base model- not the outer outline mesh- and idk how to fix it, can’t find anything online anywhere either
Hey so i have a question i have a 3d model with clothing like armor and whenever i rig the model the clothing moves when i move (arm, hand, head ) any way to fix this issue ?
Great detail all others skip over too fast. But when I generate Rig I do not get the riggify graphics. Is there something that needs to be selected? I am using Blender 3.0.
I've run into the same issue a few times. I started saving right before I hit rigify and if it didn't get the rigify graphics I close the program and restart my save, which usually works. Probably the wrong and hard way but it works for me.
Great tutorial. I've run into a issue though.. After all the steps when i'm moving my character, the bones are stretching instead of retaining the same length. If i move my foot it will strech it instead of moving the whole leg in order to accommodate the pose. What did i do wrong?
I can't remember the exact answer but he described that in his previous video, the one he mentioned at the beginning of this one that he said was too advanced for beginners. There is a section in the middle of that video where he troubleshoots problems and that was one discussed. It's a very easy fix. I just can't remember where you go and what you type when you get there. Good luck!
you need to turn the IK stretch down to 0
not sure why, but when I Parent the bones to the mesh, my mesh scales and changes orientation. I made sure to zero out all the transforms before doing this. ??
Great tutorial! Can anyone recommend a good tutorial for actually animating the human meta rig? Thanks!!
Im so confused I literally did this exactly three times in a row, and every time I get to exactly 13:13 in the tutorial, and try to move the bones in pose mode, and they just move without the model.
If I go into object mode and move the bones, the model moves with it. Any advice?
Same here! I've been trying to wrap my head around this and figure this out all day
@@dfox20 Did you ever figure this out?
same here
Good to know Im not alone
Same, I NEED ANSWERS 😭
Did you parent the mesh to the rig? If it's not parented the rig won't move it.
Thanks for this vid!!! If you go to 13:50 you will see her right arm lowered out of the green circle cage, can you tell me what those green circles are? what are they telling me? Thanks
Not sure if you figured this out already, but the green circles are the FK controls. So, if you switched it from IK (inverse kinematics) to FK (forward kinematics), you would use the green circles to move the arms.
There are some situations where FK is easier to use, but in most situations, IK is easier for moving arms and legs. :)
What if I'm not getting the gobbly goop? :D I'm using Blender 3.1 and when I rig it nothing happens... no weird lines all over.. is it the beta software or am I missing something?
These tutorials are great and have certainly helped. Also, thanks for using the basic rig -- it saves time and it is also easier to understand. :-) But there are things that are still not clear(sorry) 1 - Why do we have to generate a rig? Can't we just use the meta-rig? 2 - Why Move and Hide the original rig? Can't we just delete it? Or is it still part of the entire system? I had to export a character to Iclone (via 3DXchange) and I just parented the Meta-rig and did a FBX export (it was a very simple character). Also, is there a way of assigning Verices to Bones without painting weight maps? Thanks again!
generating a rig adds ik controls and other useful switches and deformation fixes yes you can use the metarig as it but it will be a fk only rig
the metarig once finished generation can be removed but i would advise keeping it to regenerate rig if you change proportions or rest pose of the charater
as for not doing weight paints im not 100% but bone envelopes do exist in blender im just not sure if you can directly use that to rig like in 3ds max
Thank you but I need bone picker UI that I can use it very fast. where I can find it ??
I followed your video and did the same but I had separate meshes for eyes, jaws, tongue, hair etc. and I forgot to include them in the process. Now when I move my character body, they are left behind. Can I include them now or I will have to start the whole process again?
Ctrl + J with rigged body as main object selected (Yellow)
yes you can add them just parent them to the armature with empty weights if the parts are small or dont need deformation(eye jaw maybe hair) and assign them to appropriate vertex group or you can auto weight (clothing long hair maybe) but beware of strange weights
12:40 after I selected the mesh and the deformation bones, and set to parent With Automatic Weights, the mesh/model was lying on the ground and the rig remained upright. What do I do to fix this?
Will this work with a character that already is clothed? Trying to rig a character in armor and the auto rig just will not recognize that it's attached to the mesh, even if I follow these instructions exactly and the parenting works. When I go to pose mode after parenting and hiding the weighted bones, the rig controls still move independently of the mesh :(
rig them seprately and worst case scenario manual weight paints
I have a question, if my model has other objects attached to it as children, how can I make them move with the model when I move it in pose mode? I already parented the objects to my body rig, but they doesn't seem to follow the rig. Any help would be appreciated c:
They have to be parented to the rig itself as well.
If they're rigid objects, like a hammer or sword, you'd set the parenting mode to bone or bone relative:
1. With the rig in pose mode, select the child object
2. Select the bone you want it to move with
3. Set Parent To > Bone
If they're soft objects like clothing, it's probably better to rig them just like your character. Parent them to the rig using automatic weights.
I don't see the weight options, is that something else I have to enable??
whenever i do the automatic weights my model and my bones moved apart and i don't understand why, is this a problem ?
Bone Heat Weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones - what is that mean?
I've been trying my hand at rigging and any time I try and select the parent by automatic weight, I get an error message that says "Warning: Bone Heat Weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones" you have any tips on how to troubleshoot this issue?
When this happened to me it was some of the joints that are "together" came apart. Like the knuckle on the hand for instance. If you just click on it it will select the "finger knuckle" and you move it it is separated from the hand bone knuckle. Compared to when you box select the area and you select both knuckles.
I am more than likely using the wrong blender terms here but that is how I fixed that issue for myself. Actually I just started over and was more careful selecting things.
Another thing you can try is: check your figure - the one you're trying to rig - if it have duplicate vertices. I ran into the same problem. The solution: select the figure, in Edit Mode: Mesh (Menu) -> Clean Up -> Merge by Distance. Tried to parent the figure to the rig again and it worked!
I'm getting weird bones appearing when importing to unity, should this work for game engines?
i hace a question. in the metarig with face bones, what can i do to eliminate some bones? sorry my english pls help :cc
select the bones and hit delete key
it worked great but theres issues with that rig, like it scales the bones and has no limits on the joints, such as elbows and knees bending sideways and deforming the mesh in U shapes, like why is there two thigh bones after i linked it to the mesh?
Whenever I do the shift-a meta-rig nothing happens? Any clue why this is the case?
what if the model I have downloaded already has an armature. Do I have to recreate it?
HOW DO YOU ATTACH A FACE TO THAAT I HAD A RIG THAT HAD A FACE ALREAD BUT THE FACE JUST FLOTS
Been on my list to do for a long time. You speed up at the end, It was all going good, but that shift on button 3 in blender 3 on the poster position doesn't work. So I can't actually see any of the rig controls. And I can't seem to pose move any bones. The weighting said It worked fine, possibly a bug.
Bro I have a problem with it.
I have a character which have a long nose so i have to subdivide the bone which has to be on the top of nose and one more bone which was occupying the bone but after all arrangements I 've successfully generated a rig almost like you,but when I click " Parent with Automatic Weights " It does not work in my case.
And when i tried to go to the pse mode and try to move my character face it does nor work at all.
How to get rid of this problem???
Suggest any solution plz.
bro when i press generate rig, there was a new bone set size of hip, created automaticaly , what should i do
So I followed your tutorial as best I could and I got all the way through but somehow my rig didn’t connect to my character. Any suggestions? And I love your video. Thank you it is very informative.
Check if you have duplicate vertices. I ran into the same problem (the error message was "Heat Weighting: Failed to find solution for one or more bones" - which only appeared briefly) - so I selected the figure, and in Edit Mode: Mesh (Menu) -> Clean Up -> Merge by Distance. Tried again, worked a treat!
how do you keyframe the movements the key frames keep disappearing
When you turn your leg you see your mesh is overlapping same things happen with me how to solve this ?
"You can grab these breast bones, and you can move them, if you want to. I'm not really worried about them because I never really... use them..."
cannot create bone rig spine.004 bone positions is dis jointed, wrong rig etc.. always happens to me
The automtic weight thing isnt working, its creating a giant slightly deforemd mesh instead
Trying to download 3.0 alpha but neither that or the 2.93 beta seems to be able to be downloaded. Will this work in 2.92?
It should work well in 2.92
i have follwed this to the T, along with several other ids and always the same result. my rig is not binding with my model. Something to do with the part of selecting the mesh first , then shift selecting the rig. Why.............
I think the newer Blender versions have "bone collections" rather than layers
Doesn’t work for me. I get an error that some bones couldn’t find a solution. When I go into pose mode, my rig moves independently from the model. Could someone help with that?
Bro my automatic weights are a complete mess. not even the head moves correctly, instead of tiulting it twists and swirl. everything gets twisted and deformed. when i lift an arm half of the body follows it with total deformation. 4th day trying to fix it
hey, i did the steps using the advanced rig but it doesnt show the skeleton properties when i generate the rig, pls help?
did you find out?
When I go to update the rig - using the meta one - and then generate rig. The rig blows up bigger and is not matching where things were. *edit* I solved it. I had to apply scale to the rig due to scaling it in object mode.
Boy a lot of time spent on tutorial going step by step to duplicate. Final got to end with pose mode and when I try to move/rotate IK groups, the IK groups actually move and not the model. Automatic weights process was assigned. What could be the problem with finishing this out? Issue happened at 00_13_59.
I DID EVERYTHING STEP BY STEP BUT AT THE END EVEN THOUGH I PARENTED MESH TO THE BONES THE MESH DOESNT MOVE WITH THE ARMATURE?!?!?! I DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT I HAVE DONE WRONG
Is it just me or did they remove the "single bone" form 3.0?! like without Rigify i does not exist in fresh installed Blender 3.0!!🤔😮
And how do I add clothes mesh to this rigged human?
i can move the control bones but the model doesn't move with them. What did I do wrong
So I followed the tutorial like twice but the mesh doesn't follow the bones, there is a notification that pops up but it went away before I got to read it. If I could get any help with this it'd be great thanks
probably was saying weight painting failed your mesh is probably not closed (open loop somewhere) or have some intersecting faces or other oddities that blender just does not like
@@ipodtouchiscoollol This. It's a pretty common problem apparently, but the solution is usually exactly as you said.
Go to top left, click Window, go to bottom to Toggle System Console and a window will pop up that will display all messages that popped up. Found that and it saved me a ton of aggravation.
@@ipodtouchiscoollol Check if you have duplicate vertices. I ran into the same problem (the error message was "Heat Weighting: Failed to find solution for one or more bones" - which only appeared briefly) - so I selected the figure, and in Edit Mode: Mesh (Menu) -> Clean Up -> Merge by Distance.
how do i add fingers
I don't see rig properties in toolbox items.
so I don't need the bone mesh in that cause doing vtube avatar for the first time lol 4:05
I have Bone Heat Wrighted failed when set parent.
I have just figured out the solution.