the chain rig had this feature by default, I'm pretty sure it has that in the limb options but I'm not recalling right now, and my trial is over right now, but you can try using tail bones, and I think you can add more limb in the newer versions of auto rig pro, the normal limbs like arms have stretch bones. if you couldn't find the fix please let me know, I'll check that for you

@@mck3D Ok thanks, because I would really want that the bones are almost not parented at all. Like stretch it on the Y axis

Yeah, please test that, in the custom rigging, we create another set of bones for that specific function in order to have both parented and non-parented bones, but you need to find that in the addon, there should be an option.

@@mck3D Ok 👍

Thanks and all of what you've said is True, if you are into the rigging, I highly recommend you start custom rigging, no addon or tool can replace a good custom rig yet, it seems hard at first but it's not. best wishes for you

@@mck3D yeah thanks for the tip I will be learning eventually but atm its daunting and i'm still on the process of learning to model my characters first some of my issues where probably due to the model I used or an older/incompatible version of plugin as I do believe it worked much better last time I tried

the best practice for learning the rigging is to use an already rigged character, then delete the skeleton and the rig and start from scratch, this way you know that you put all the model failures out of the way when you are comfortable with the rigging fundamentals, you can start using your own models, that way you learn how to create models for the rigging. it's just a suggestion though, everyone's learning path is different, and do what you think gonna teach you best. cheers

Thanks for mentioning it, I didn't face that before because I didn't use them on my custom rigs, but wow I didn't know that, thanks for mentioning, I'll pin your comment for others to see. cheers

I hope it helped you too :) we all had these problems, and I have personal collection of failures in my backpack :)) maybe I make another video too, but thanks for the comment.

Thank you for your comment, and I'm glad it helped you, that was exactly my goal in mind, best wishes for you.

Hey hey, thank you for your generous offer, I'm so occupied right now that the first thing I want is to continue making videos if I had a spare time. But this addon can make a pretty good Daz rig inside Blender, you just need to recheck the weight paints, you may already be familiar with it: github.com/daz3d/DazToBlender

I'm genuinely glad that it helped you. cheers

Eyes are a little bit tricky to rig with auto riggings, but eyes are so easy to fix, just select the eyes and the eyes rig like when you want to rig the whole body, then press ctrl+p and instead of automatic weight paints select object, because the whole eyes object moves with the rig, we actually don't need to weight paint them. but remember to rig them separately to each eye rig

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My pleasure, I'm glad that it helped you fix your problem

@@mck3D Blender tutorials are a nightmare man. Seems like 100s of people with the same solution that didn't work for every problem. I'm not even sure how to fix it.

I understand you, that's the tough part, there a ton of information out there but finding what you need can be frustrating, so whenever you have a problem try asking in Blender communities or in the comments ( if you can't find the solution within minutes of searching online) and I will be happy to help you if I have the answer, so just jump in the comments section and ask your question.

@@mck3D Thanks, keep up the good work!

Thanks mate, you too <3

I'm so glad that it helped you, don't hesitate to ask your questions here, I'll be active again, wish you a great journey ahead

I'm not sure what the problem is, can't recall this ever happening to me, but a lot of times, auto rigging addons have some weird bugs, you can just delete the rig and try fresh.

I know it's been a long time, and maybe you've already fixed your problem, but the problem may happen due to the IK FK difference, make sure that that put your target model into IK or FK depending on the source skeleton.

@@mck3D yep that was it, took me a few hours to find out but got there, but its good that you wrote this just in case people have the same problem and come searching! thanks mate

I'm glad you fixed it, and thanks for your reply, yes having it can help others. cheers

Thanks a ton, was inactive for a time, but comments like this give me energy. thanks again

you can rig the hair with a chain or tail rig depending on the hair, you should add them in the ARP options.

Do you mean your skeleton does not have a pinky finger? or you pinky finger doesn't move with the rig?

It's working in the 02:37 in the video, but if you explain to me your exact problem we can fix that easily, does you knee bend the wrong way?

It's really easy, you just need to do it a few times.

Thanks a ton, the same <3

your question is too general, a lot of times you can just export the rig as FBX, but if you are targeting industry-level animation you can't use exported FBX rigs, but also in that workflow, the rigging is done in the same application that the animations are going to be done. Another thing is that rigs in each specific program have features that only work with the same program. You can also only check the armature in the FBX export options. But here I assume you want this Blender rig to move to another Blender project, you can add this skeleton as a link or append to your other project, but remember you can't move the rig(with weight paints) you can just move the skeleton and then re-weight paint your new model. weight painting and rigging happen in the vertices of each model so it can't be transferred if the vertex count and position are different.

Not sure about it, If it does, it's something in the newer versions.

My pleasure, yeah in 3D these things are the headaches xD

You've already did more than you had to, thank you <3

Hahaha, but still these are a great start as long as they don't mess the whole thing, but I never use them for my face riggings, you mentioned two separate feet, imagine what they do to the face xD

You're welcome, and thank you <3

Welcome!

You’re welcome 😊

Sorry for late answer but it's probably due to IK, FK switch, or the rest pose

@@mck3D I changed rest pose to t pose but ut giving same problem so what's the solution?

Sorry for late reply, I hope it can still help you. -Make sure your model is lower than 75,000 polygons. -make sure bones are not outside the body -check if you model already has an armature modifier, if it does, remove it before the process

Yes you can assign the weight to any single vertex or a group of them, you can select different UV parts by moving your mouse over one vertex and pressing L

True

About the eyes most of the time it's not your fault, just make sure that each eye bone has 100% influence on the respective eye and 0% on the other one in weight painting. About your character not moving, make sure to check these: - your character has 75,000 polygons or less - you bones are inside the model not outside - you don't have an armature modifier before the process

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@@mck3D I just need practice that’s all I need but your videos helped my progress pretty good,keep it up

I hope it's not too late to answer, you can select your rig then shift select your model and go to weight paint mode there by pressing ctrl + click you can select each bone and see the paint, or you can just simply go to weight painting of your model and in vertex groups select each bone

@@mck3D It’s helpful plenty! Thx for replying.

Its there on right click you select rig then mesh Make sure everything is placed properly in the center of each mesh part or it will be a disaster 🙈

You select the skeleton and model in wrong order, first select model then shift select the skeleton

Thank you, make sure to send me your mistakes, we can fix them too

Best wishes for you guys ❤️

Try older versions of blender, the rokoko addon is not very up to date

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Lol sorry, I know it's so late to reply but ask anything if you have problems in the proccess

You're very welcome, I'm glad it was helpful to you.

You're very welcome, I'm glad you liked them, sorry for the late replay, I'm not sure about 2.79 as I don't remember the workflow, did you try to hide the layers of the rig? maybe you've activated some hidden layers.

@@mck3D Am good thanks, the important thing is you got the message. I'll try to hide the layers and see how it works. Thanks.

@@mck3D Hey your idea worked, thanks. But I got another issue when trying to move some parts of the rig like the hands and legs, the mesh of the hands and the legs are stretching. What could be the issue?

Hey, sorry for the late replay, I don't know a way that you can rig two different characters in the same project, my suggestion is to create two different Blender projects (scenes) then rig each character in each one of them, then for animations create a third project and either append both characters to the new project or link them, this way you can use them both.

Did you apply transforms of the skeleton before clicking on the generated rig? if not select the skeleton and press CTRL + A, apply all transforms.

You're welcome, thank you for watching.

in the viewport shading, put the shading on the solid mode, and in the solid mode expand by clicking the little arrow, then select "Material" in order to see the model in material mode, any type of shading or rendering will slow down your movement.

The reason why you mesh could be lagging is to do with its poly count being too high. The higher the poly count, the more its struggles to respond in real time. A work around for this is selecting your mesh and clicking shift D move it but don’t let go of the mouse bottom, then click esc. It’ll snap it to its original location. Next you want to remesh your new mesh with the remesh modifier. Ideally you want to rename this newer mesh to lower poly so you know the difference. Go to your modifiers and click on remesh. You want there to be enough poly count so it’s roughly matches your original mesh. Once you’ve found a desired look, apply the modifier. You then want to disconnect all previous parenting you did with the rig prior to this. By selecting everything and clicking alt p and clearing the parents. Make sure that you remove all vertex groups as well. This is located in the object data properties tab. The one that looks like a triangle. To remove them all quicker click on the down darker arrow that is located in the middle of the other buttons and select deleted all groups. You then want to parent your lower poly mesh with your rig by selecting the rig by selecting the mesh, shift clicking on the rig, ctrl p: automatic weights. You then want to click on your original mesh and shift click the rig. Click ctrl P and set the parent to with empty groups. You then want to click on your original mesh, shift click on the lower polly mesh and click weight paint. You then click on weights, transfer weights, you want to change vertex mapping to nearest face interpolated, and then change source layers to by name. And if it was followed correctly the mesh should snap into place without any issues occurring.

sorry for the late reply, in automatic weight painting the skeleton presented to you at first is just to define the placement of the bones and after generating the rig you're gonna have under layer IK FK rig that is hidden by default, another thing is that when you move your IK rig, you FK rig stays in place, you can move you FK rig by switching to FK rig.

@@mck3D omg thanks so much !!!! didnt expect you to reply back !!! thats so nice of you!! thankss again for helping out! really appreciate it!

@@meowmeowstar19 Of course I do, if you ever had problems like this, just leave a comment I will reply back, and usually not as long as the last one ^_^ cheers

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