The rig is not binding wirh the character..it shows nothing...when i click bind, it load and load but shows nothing....and if i click somewhere else it just says not responding on top and crashes...please help !
Todor, just bought the course, but I'm having an issue following how you got the "Recommended setup" for the hind legs at 21:03. There you have two bones in the foot, and no pelvic bone... but at 16:54 you only have one bone in the foot. You also have this in the final rig blend file for the dog. Wondering what happened here..
Hi, At 7:57 I already align the hind leg in the "recommended" setup. At 16:16 I then offset them just to show another *possible* setup but at 18:29 I say that I prefer the previous one. Then I go through the Undo History and undo many steps until I get the previous setup. Also, check out 18:44 where I explain why I chose the "recommended" setup. Let me know if this makes sense. I think the "undo" portion threw you off but the tutorial does not skip any steps so it should all make sense.
Hi there! So when I adjust the front leg bones at about 7 minutes in, what happens is the ik gets messed up in a way that if i raise the front foot up and forward, the leg twists backwards. Do you know of anyways to troubleshoot and refine the quality of the ik alignments?
How can I rig a character that I've applied vertex groups on? It's making me either delete them or they aren't included in the binding process; I need the vertex groups for fur and stripes particle systems I have on my cat.
Thanks for your tutorials. That's really good to learn auto-rig pro. I have two questions from the videos with animal rig. I am trying to rig a dinosaur, (raptor shape) with Auto-Rig pro. I used a dog armature. I thought it's close enough to modify. Two problem I encountered. -Bank bones? The one you placed behind the heel. The raptor's forefoot is more like hand. So, I did disable it, then whole arm is gone. Couldn't find "Bank" option inside limb option. How do I disable those without disable arms? -This is the biggest issue. I finished placing bones, I clicked "Match to Rig" It made mess. The new control bones don't align to the model. The new control bones looks a dog shape. So, looks like Auto-Rig still using some reference of a shape of dog, and a shape of a dinosaur is too far from a dog, and looks like Auto-Rig got confused? Or, do I missing anything before I click Match to Rig? Could you tell me how to solve or work around plan? Thanks in advance
It's not easy to say because I am not sure what you did exactly. I may literally have to watch over your shoulder to say for sure :) But I'll be working on a dinosaur tutorial with Auto-Rig Pro in the near future! Also, I am going to release a detailed video about bird rigging next week (wing video coming today!). Birds evolved from dinosaurs so there are a lot of similarities. I hope it will help!
@@CGDive I was following the video step by step, but dinosaur. look forward to seeing your bird rigging video, and hopefully a dinosaur video or something not human, not dog. Until then, I will try by myself. thanks
What scale is your dog when you imported? I noticed .obj was one option, but no .fbx. When I brought in the obj version it was HUGE, because autorig pro's rig(dog option) was SO TINY! :) how or did you correct for this?
I always try to work in "real world scale". I am not sure what the size of the original model was. If it was too big/small I probably re-scaled it. It's essential to do these checks and fixes before you start rigging. Fixing things after the fact is always more demanding.
when i move the paw it doesn't move like yours does. It is a lot stiffer for some reason. I have redone this rig so many times now and i cant figure out why. ( i cant remember if i asked this before. sorry if i did, but i lost my answer if there was one)
Good video. I have a question. I bought it a year ago Auto-Rig Pro and only today I started to study. There is one thing not to catch dogs. I made a mesh, but my doll has an open mouth, if I remove the bones as an incoming textbook, how should I make a closed mouth? The second question of animals in what format to export to the UЕ4 engine
You should be able to rig the dog with its mouth open. If you want to close it before rigging, that's a relatively simple Edit Mode or Sculpt mode task. You need to learn Blender :)
@@CGDive I understand how to do this, but I don’t know how to sign it correctly and display the manipulator. In a word, I’m a noob)) You know, it would be easier if in a future patch you can select those bones that need to be deleted and add such a function to the plugin menu. Unless of course it is generally possible to do this. In any case, thank you very much for your work and quick response.
Can it be used for six legged animals? Like mythology Fenrir (six legged wolf) or Slepnir (Odin's Horse with six legs), the Palulu'kan in Avatar or the Displacement Beast in D&D
Yeah, sure. You can start with a dog or another quadruped. Then in "Edit Reference Bones" mode use Add Limb to add another leg. Just align it to the additional leg and parent the leg bone to e.g. the closes spine bone. Then can mirror it with the Dupli Mirror button. :)
Hello. After I match to rig, the armature bones are appearing together with the control bones. Even after skinning, the bones are appearing together with the generated rig. Some even overlapping - lying beneath or on top of each other. Am I doing something wrong or it's how the new version works?
I am sorry but I don't understand the problem. "the armature bones are appearing together with the control bones" > this is what is supposed to happen with Auto-Rig Pro. Could it be that you have Rigify experience and expect Auto-Rig Pro to work the same way? Is the result you get different than what is shown in the video?
@@CGDiveI should have called them reference bones. In my case, they are appearing after I match to rig 8:30 and after binding 9:10. The "edit reference bones" button is greyed out too.
@@JanSaints I am not sure if I am imagining it right but I guess you are seeing Reference bones or possibly Deform bones along with the controls, right? IDK, youtube comments are just terrible for trying to help with stuff like this. You can post some images on our discord. Video would be even better. CGDive Discord: discord.gg/j8SQCjFsXP If you believe the addon is not behaving as it should, first check if you have the latest version. If not, update to the latest one. If the problem is with the latest version, then report a bug to the Auto-Rig Pro dev through Blender Market.
@@CGDiveIt could be something to do with bone collections. They seem not to automatically turn on/off accordingly when I match to rig or skin or perform any other task.
Hey man! this is a great tutorial thank you! I am just having trouble adding an IK spine to this rig and I can't find a tutorial for it anywhere on the web. Please could you show us how to do this? I use IK spine for animating quadrupeds so I think its super important.
This is the spine you get with ARP. Recently they added an master control for the upper body. See here th-cam.com/video/nNNnVs-rvb8/w-d-xo.html I hope they will add one for the butt as well.
How do u memorize all these ? Auto-Rig,AcccuRig, And tons of rigging in Rigify One question - if a mesh is separated like - head, body, hands,feets are separated and in pose mode when posing the meshes are opening up/deforming how to fix that ?
Sometimes I watch my own tutorials. :P But with experience, all tools start to make sense. As to your question, it sounds like a weight painting problem.
The next video in the series (rigging a fox) will include a face rig. You can already watch it with the paid course, link in the description :) Or wait a week or two until I release it on TH-cam.
Do not do what I did from 16:15 and you will have the parallel movement. This part of the video just shows an experiment but then I undo to the previous state.
@@CGDive thanks for answer, maybe u can say for me I’m not that advanced as u, so what is the main difference can be in numbers of bones for limbs? What algorithms usually reads in this case? Difference between rigify and ue for example? And between this one and rigify ? I’m looking for the best solution to work with cascadeur! Thanks!
I know dogs arent as smart as humans but they are pretty smart. There should be a petsmart mode. jk, thanks for all your videos. They've really helped me out
Another great & informative tutorial. I am now using ARP rigs exclusively. I still harvest Daz rigs but now the Diffeo addon can bake the Daz genesis face morphs to shape keys allowing the direct import of shape key facial animation to Daz Genesis characters who have ARP body rigs. I have video on my channel .. it solves my problem of facial mocap for ARP rigs.!
You can actually rig that with the standard human rig with face. But watch the other videos on the playlist. You will learn how to make custom rigs th-cam.com/play/PLdcL5aF8ZcJuHJFQgb4altQWs-RCKA7Bq.html
I am not familiar with VRchat but my guess is that it can be done through Auto-Rig Pro's dedicated export options. You should ask the developer for more info tho :)
The solution? To what? I just decided to not do a facial rig in this video. In the next video (fox rigging) I did a face rig :) th-cam.com/video/qc7yT-hyhOI/w-d-xo.html
Dos not work. Dos not bind any mesh. Only if I don't move bones. All as you did in this tutorial but does not work. Mindblowing wasting of time. UPD: I found solution - need to merge some points in mesh. But still don't understand it was working with default armature and did not with changes.
Unfortunately Automatic Weights is not a perfect solution. It fails in some cases. Even though Auto-Rig Pro has additional operators to make it a bit more reliable than the default, it still fails occasionally. You can watch my human rigging video, there I showed the additional binding algorithms that ARP has to offer: th-cam.com/video/nvjq7C9BbAQ/w-d-xo.html Also check out my video dedicated to the "Bone heat failed" issue (the error that occurs when binding fails). It contains many solutions that you can try th-cam.com/video/FuiY0wtxdHQ/w-d-xo.html
is there a connection between the blender rig and the Unreal Control Rig ? Can they be used in pretty much the same way ? Does this rig export to Unreal AS a control rig?
The ARP rig and UE Control rig may have similar controls but they are in no way related. "Does this rig export to Unreal AS a control rig?" Not directly although you may be able to export your character as a standard Mannequin rig and reuse the existing Control rig blueprints.
I've been waiting for this tutorial every day and now it's finally here. Thanks!
No pressure, right! haha
More quadrupeds coming next week :)
Excellent and clever! Thanks to this I'm now able to use Auto-Rig for quadrupeds! I was looking for scapula... Many thanks!
Awesome! 👍
Awesome tutorial as always, thanks men. Waiting for other videos of fox and horse
Coming soon!
Hats off Bro for all those rigging tutorials that helped me out a lot .. keep up and thanks a million ♥
Happy to help!
The rig is not binding wirh the character..it shows nothing...when i click bind, it load and load but shows nothing....and if i click somewhere else it just says not responding on top and crashes...please help !
Another great tutorial, thank you so much.
Todor, just bought the course, but I'm having an issue following how you got the "Recommended setup" for the hind legs at 21:03. There you have two bones in the foot, and no pelvic bone... but at 16:54 you only have one bone in the foot. You also have this in the final rig blend file for the dog. Wondering what happened here..
Hi,
At 7:57 I already align the hind leg in the "recommended" setup.
At 16:16 I then offset them just to show another *possible* setup but at 18:29 I say that I prefer the previous one. Then I go through the Undo History and undo many steps until I get the previous setup.
Also, check out 18:44 where I explain why I chose the "recommended" setup.
Let me know if this makes sense. I think the "undo" portion threw you off but the tutorial does not skip any steps so it should all make sense.
i really apreciate this videos, thanks
Just a quick question as I am new in rigging I rigged a dog model when I move the ear eye lashes also move with it.
I have purchased the auto rig pro. i try to bind, but it is error. please kindly help to provide us how to solve this issue.
Very cool video!
Hi there! So when I adjust the front leg bones at about 7 minutes in, what happens is the ik gets messed up in a way that if i raise the front foot up and forward, the leg twists backwards. Do you know of anyways to troubleshoot and refine the quality of the ik alignments?
How can I rig a character that I've applied vertex groups on? It's making me either delete them or they aren't included in the binding process; I need the vertex groups for fur and stripes particle systems I have on my cat.
I have trouble understanding the problem. Who is making you delete them?
How can I export the fbx to unreal with the bones for posing?
Really nice and helpful... Thanks!
i wonder if any of these settings would help me rig a therapod instead of manually doing it
Once you know how to add "limbs" you can rig most things. Theropod shouldn't be a problem.
Thanks for your tutorials. That's really good to learn auto-rig pro. I have two questions from the videos with animal rig.
I am trying to rig a dinosaur, (raptor shape) with Auto-Rig pro. I used a dog armature. I thought it's close enough to modify.
Two problem I encountered.
-Bank bones? The one you placed behind the heel. The raptor's forefoot is more like hand. So, I did disable it, then whole arm is gone. Couldn't find "Bank" option inside limb option. How do I disable those without disable arms?
-This is the biggest issue. I finished placing bones, I clicked "Match to Rig" It made mess. The new control bones don't align to the model. The new control bones looks a dog shape. So, looks like Auto-Rig still using some reference of a shape of dog, and a shape of a dinosaur is too far from a dog, and looks like Auto-Rig got confused? Or, do I missing anything before I click Match to Rig?
Could you tell me how to solve or work around plan? Thanks in advance
It's not easy to say because I am not sure what you did exactly. I may literally have to watch over your shoulder to say for sure :)
But I'll be working on a dinosaur tutorial with Auto-Rig Pro in the near future!
Also, I am going to release a detailed video about bird rigging next week (wing video coming today!). Birds evolved from dinosaurs so there are a lot of similarities. I hope it will help!
@@CGDive I was following the video step by step, but dinosaur.
look forward to seeing your bird rigging video, and hopefully a dinosaur video or something not human, not dog.
Until then, I will try by myself. thanks
What scale is your dog when you imported? I noticed .obj was one option, but no .fbx. When I brought in the obj version it was HUGE, because autorig pro's rig(dog option) was SO TINY! :) how or did you correct for this?
I always try to work in "real world scale". I am not sure what the size of the original model was. If it was too big/small I probably re-scaled it. It's essential to do these checks and fixes before you start rigging. Fixing things after the fact is always more demanding.
@@CGDive well that's what I was asking whether you'd scaled the model down to a specific size to fit
@@SeanLake3D Well, I don't remember exactly for this particular model :)
Please Make a detailed tutorial playlist of Animation and camera movement . That will be more help full for lot of folks here.....
helllo I hope someone would read this lol
is anyone else having issues with the edit reference bones and limb options being blacked out?
I read it but I can't say for sure. Edit reference bones is grayed out when you are in Edit Reference bones mode but I doubt that's the problem.
This is amazing, but i wonder if rigging a bird with this add-on is possible. If so can you make a tutorial about it ?
Yes, it is possible but I'll have to test it well first. Then I will make a tutorial about it for sure. I know it's a popular request 🙂
when i move the paw it doesn't move like yours does. It is a lot stiffer for some reason. I have redone this rig so many times now and i cant figure out why. ( i cant remember if i asked this before. sorry if i did, but i lost my answer if there was one)
Hi, I am not sure. If you are on discord, post your question on our server with images discord.gg/j8SQCjFsXP
Please teach how to weight paint Eyelashes (Separate object) in detail, Thanks
Did you watch the ARP human video? There was a bit about that in that video.
Good video. I have a question. I bought it a year ago Auto-Rig Pro and only today I started to study. There is one thing not to catch dogs. I made a mesh, but my doll has an open mouth, if I remove the bones as an incoming textbook, how should I make a closed mouth? The second question of animals in what format to export to the UЕ4 engine
You should be able to rig the dog with its mouth open. If you want to close it before rigging, that's a relatively simple Edit Mode or Sculpt mode task. You need to learn Blender :)
@@CGDive I understand how to do this, but I don’t know how to sign it correctly and display the manipulator. In a word, I’m a noob)) You know, it would be easier if in a future patch you can select those bones that need to be deleted and add such a function to the plugin menu. Unless of course it is generally possible to do this. In any case, thank you very much for your work and quick response.
Please tell me any free or low cost addon available like auto rigpro
Rigify is free :)
Can it be used for six legged animals? Like mythology Fenrir (six legged wolf) or Slepnir (Odin's Horse with six legs), the Palulu'kan in Avatar or the Displacement Beast in D&D
Yeah, sure. You can start with a dog or another quadruped. Then in "Edit Reference Bones" mode use Add Limb to add another leg. Just align it to the additional leg and parent the leg bone to e.g. the closes spine bone. Then can mirror it with the Dupli Mirror button. :)
@@CGDive Awesome! Thanks! Also, how does Auto-Rig Pro handle Mixamo animations for humanoids?
@@DamielBE You can use the Remap features to retarget mixamo. Tuts:
th-cam.com/play/PLdcL5aF8ZcJvvsiXT9kOvO6xCCv2r9sOW.html
Hello. After I match to rig, the armature bones are appearing together with the control bones. Even after skinning, the bones are appearing together with the generated rig. Some even overlapping - lying beneath or on top of each other. Am I doing something wrong or it's how the new version works?
I am sorry but I don't understand the problem.
"the armature bones are appearing together with the control bones" > this is what is supposed to happen with Auto-Rig Pro. Could it be that you have Rigify experience and expect Auto-Rig Pro to work the same way? Is the result you get different than what is shown in the video?
@@CGDiveI should have called them reference bones. In my case, they are appearing after I match to rig 8:30 and after binding 9:10. The "edit reference bones" button is greyed out too.
@@JanSaints I am not sure if I am imagining it right but I guess you are seeing Reference bones or possibly Deform bones along with the controls, right? IDK, youtube comments are just terrible for trying to help with stuff like this. You can post some images on our discord. Video would be even better.
CGDive Discord: discord.gg/j8SQCjFsXP
If you believe the addon is not behaving as it should, first check if you have the latest version. If not, update to the latest one.
If the problem is with the latest version, then report a bug to the Auto-Rig Pro dev through Blender Market.
@@CGDiveIt could be something to do with bone collections. They seem not to automatically turn on/off accordingly when I match to rig or skin or perform any other task.
Hey man! this is a great tutorial thank you! I am just having trouble adding an IK spine to this rig and I can't find a tutorial for it anywhere on the web. Please could you show us how to do this? I use IK spine for animating quadrupeds so I think its super important.
This is the spine you get with ARP. Recently they added an master control for the upper body. See here
th-cam.com/video/nNNnVs-rvb8/w-d-xo.html
I hope they will add one for the butt as well.
How do u memorize all these ? Auto-Rig,AcccuRig, And tons of rigging in Rigify
One question - if a mesh is separated like - head, body, hands,feets are separated and in pose mode when posing the meshes are opening up/deforming how to fix that ?
Sometimes I watch my own tutorials. :P
But with experience, all tools start to make sense.
As to your question, it sounds like a weight painting problem.
Indeed Helpful! Is it possible to make deer rig with dog armature or Horse will work?
Both will work but I guess the Horse is closer by default. The horse video is coming soon!
Can you please make a facial rig tutorial for any animal preferably dog or cat
The next video in the series (rigging a fox) will include a face rig. You can already watch it with the paid course, link in the description :)
Or wait a week or two until I release it on TH-cam.
Awesome stuff. Will you be taking this series as in depth/ as far as you’ve taken your rigify series?
I'll take it one step at a time but I see enough interest in the series. So you can expect plenty of videos :)
i don't understand how to set the hind leg in parallel. min 18.56
Do not do what I did from 16:15 and you will have the parallel movement. This part of the video just shows an experiment but then I undo to the previous state.
does it work for Cascadeur if u export it for it to add animation?
subscribed infront!
I haven't tested that sorry. I know that people are doing that with Rigify so it should be possible. You just have to figure out the exact workflow.
@@CGDive thanks for answer, maybe u can say for me I’m not that advanced as u, so what is the main difference can be in numbers of bones for limbs? What algorithms usually reads in this case? Difference between rigify and ue for example? And between this one and rigify ? I’m looking for the best solution to work with cascadeur! Thanks!
@@_CDDVD_ I don't have enough experience with Cascadeur, sorry :)
what's the bone hierarchy like when exporting in to game engines like Unreal Engine 5 or Unity?
ARP has dedicated export features. They should simplify the armature. I'll be testing and making videos about that too.
I know dogs arent as smart as humans but they are pretty smart. There should be a petsmart mode. jk, thanks for all your videos. They've really helped me out
haha
The dev said he'd like to do a smart mode for quadrupeds in the future but there are other priorities for now.
Another great & informative tutorial.
I am now using ARP rigs exclusively.
I still harvest Daz rigs but now the Diffeo addon can bake the Daz genesis face morphs to shape keys allowing the direct import of shape key facial animation to Daz Genesis characters who have ARP body rigs.
I have video on my channel .. it solves my problem of facial mocap for ARP rigs.!
Nice. I'll check out your channel!
Make video on iclone animal rigging with 75 animal animation iclone pack rerargetting to other animals
what if you want to have a dog-headed human?
You can actually rig that with the standard human rig with face. But watch the other videos on the playlist. You will learn how to make custom rigs
th-cam.com/play/PLdcL5aF8ZcJuHJFQgb4altQWs-RCKA7Bq.html
can this be used for VRchat ?
I am not familiar with VRchat but my guess is that it can be done through Auto-Rig Pro's dedicated export options. You should ask the developer for more info tho :)
why u thought deleting facial bones was the solution?
The solution? To what?
I just decided to not do a facial rig in this video. In the next video (fox rigging) I did a face rig :)
th-cam.com/video/qc7yT-hyhOI/w-d-xo.html
Can you help me brother?
Maybe. I receive too many questions so I can't answer all of them. But if I know the answer to a question, I will let you know.
please make bone elephant
Bone elephant? Do you mean a video about rigging an elephant?
@@CGDive yes rigging elephant
@@sokeng9590 Got it, I'll consider it!
I like dogs
It's a zombie dog :)
If google analytics tells you you get a lot of hits from the Netherlands, thats probably me...
Haha, 🙏
Dos not work. Dos not bind any mesh. Only if I don't move bones. All as you did in this tutorial but does not work. Mindblowing wasting of time.
UPD: I found solution - need to merge some points in mesh. But still don't understand it was working with default armature and did not with changes.
Unfortunately Automatic Weights is not a perfect solution. It fails in some cases. Even though Auto-Rig Pro has additional operators to make it a bit more reliable than the default, it still fails occasionally.
You can watch my human rigging video, there I showed the additional binding algorithms that ARP has to offer:
th-cam.com/video/nvjq7C9BbAQ/w-d-xo.html
Also check out my video dedicated to the "Bone heat failed" issue (the error that occurs when binding fails). It contains many solutions that you can try
th-cam.com/video/FuiY0wtxdHQ/w-d-xo.html
is there a connection between the blender rig and the Unreal Control Rig ?
Can they be used in pretty much the same way ?
Does this rig export to Unreal AS a control rig?
The ARP rig and UE Control rig may have similar controls but they are in no way related.
"Does this rig export to Unreal AS a control rig?"
Not directly although you may be able to export your character as a standard Mannequin rig and reuse the existing Control rig blueprints.
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