Preparing to Rig - The SECRETS of RIGIFY: Part 2! [Blender 2.8]

[@chlbrn]

Man, I have seen a lot of blender users messing up scale badly. It is so happy to see you taking care of real world scaling.

[@lucianomunoz]

hehe I'm glad you appreciated it , i think its important to set correct foundations to avoid issues later down the road

[@rileyb3d]

Love your teaching style man. Keep up the great work.

[@lucianomunoz]

Thank you sir!

[@anzatzi]

Best Rigify video(s) on web. Great job! (And by the way, blender docs make this very confusing with pose mode workflow) Also helpful is that you mention 'L select' for selecting joint chains. I didn't think of that. Curious about possible problem joint rot axis issues here, but following along for now

[@lucianomunoz]

Hey thank you for such a nice comment, i'm glad is being useful!

[@martineschoyez]

Really really great work here, my friend. Standing ovation, i'm understanding all that things that i was doing just clicking here and there and praying to god. :D

[@lucianomunoz]

Thanks a lot Martin!,

[@binksterb]

I swear I subscribed, subscribed, yes I did.

[@lucianomunoz]

hahha are you sure?

[@activemotionpictures]

13:26 - What a bold move! Doing two Riggify generate rig buttons in the same scene? That would normally crash on 2.80 - I avoid doing it more than once per scene. I guess 2.82 has it fixed now? Anyways, the internal eye bone part was skipped. Why? Great series!

[@lucianomunoz]

for now, in the next part we'll touch up on the eyes! and see what works and what doesnt!

[@damorenicolas]

Another awesome chapter, so funny and so useful, thanks a lot Luciano! Can't wait to see more :)

[@lucianomunoz]

thanks nico!, me too need to start recording part 3!

[@crummymudd8625]

Rescaling the metarig to the character is quite a bit of work. Is there a way to save the modified scaled rig to apply to other characters in other .blend files? I hate to think I have to do this every time, hope there is a way to re-use all the work I put into the first one

[@vain3d973]

CTRL + P With Automatic Weights.

[@lucianomunoz]

yeah ! automatic weights FTW!

[@torororororo]

Great tutorial. You're hilarious. I subbed 😂

[@lucianomunoz]

Thank you for subbing!, I'm glad you enjoyed!

[@KINGDOMSONSTV]

Love your videos , Just came across your channel . Thank you for sharing.

[@lucianomunoz]

Im happy youre liking it!

[@timkelly4939]

Thank you so much for the video! It was handy to have someone go through the whole process

[@lucianomunoz]

You're welcome!, i'm glad it helps!

[@ELAZA]

Amigo Gracias! Your videos help a lot!

[@lucianomunoz]

Hey I'm glad!, de nada!

[@poochyboi]

why when i press the magic button, nothing happens and it says "generation has thrown an exception: list index out of range"

[@RomboutVersluijs]

One thing i missed in the placement, was the hip part. Those 2 diagonal bones which stick up, they need to be around where a hip would end right, like at the top of the hip? Same like the for the "ball" of the foot, not sure if that is correct name, i mean the location over which it rolls at the front. But i guess that's why this one is a intermediate tut series

[@lucianomunoz]

something like that, as i've studied it they seem to only be to isolate the weight of the legs from the torso so you dong get awful results out of the auto weights,

[@RomboutVersluijs]

@@lucianomunoz Yeah i think I just need to do lots of testing about bone placements and see the effects. Thats one thing why Rigify is so nice. You can very easily re-generate rig without major issues. Atleast before you have done major weight-painting I guess

[@RomboutVersluijs]

@@lucianomunoz I was also checking the vids from CG DIve, also super in depth videos and they really well with your tutorial. He explained that these bones are there to hold back the influence of the thigh bones. Otherwise the vertex weights would go all the way up to the waist area. Quite clever actually thinking about it

[@bettymac8248]

Love these videos!

[@lucianomunoz]

Thank you Betty!, means a lot!

[@azraelaxel3124]

llegué un poco tarde para el estreno del video... pero mejor tarde, que nunca... muchas gracias por los videos, muy buena tu forma de explicar!... también me está ayudando a entender un poco como funciona el mundillo de la animación por Rigify (antes lo hacía hueso por hueso jajaja), un saludo!

[@lucianomunoz]

gracias!

[@juantopo67]

Excelente video! Muy bien explicado un proceso que a mí se me hace muy difícil! Sigue así 👍🏼😉

[@lucianomunoz]

gracias querido, que bueno que ayuda!

[@bobodudu9414]

Good job bro!

[@lucianomunoz]

Thanks bro!

[@michaelkavanagh8440]

Great video!

[@lucianomunoz]

Thank you Michael!

[@aleph-tav]

Can you please do a "How to link/append" Blender rigs? I would LOVE to know how to link/Append like 2 of the same rigs, like two ball rigs in Blender. :)

[@lucianomunoz]

Hey frosty!, Check this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p326Y2qOmK1pors Bo with the current system you cant link 2 of the same rigs its a limitation on how it works, the system that is currently in development will allow it but I don't know what stage that is at the moment Cheers !

[@felipefranciscosotoros1615]

Excelente trabajo, me ayudó mucho para aprender. 😁👌🏽

[@lucianomunoz]

gracias felipe!, que bueno que todos puedan aprender algo!

[@quollism]

The hotkey was Ctrl-P but the REAL teaser is which option you chose after that: Envelope Weights, Empty Groups or Automatic Weights? Guess we'll have to wait and see.. Also, loving this course! Thanks for making it! :)

[@lucianomunoz]

haha!, place your bets!

[@22harpert22]

@@lucianomunoz I bet Automatic

[@lucianomunoz]

@@22harpert22 find out in the next video kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6GkqYxrZp58gLc

Bonjour! (Oui je suis français) My Mesh was deformed at the knees with Rig by Rigify. Thanks to you I now know how to build a new one with constraints to avoid deformation on my Mesh. I will test in the afternoon and we will see if it works. Continue as you are on top

[@lucianomunoz]

great that i could help!, show me what you do!

@@lucianomunoz ok when it'll be ok!

[@ValuStudios]

Fantastic my friend

[@lucianomunoz]

thanks man!

[@ChristianLazoFuentes]

SECO MASTER!!! MUCHAS GRACIAS

[@lucianomunoz]

a ti!

[@Inlet]

When I generated, the skeleton scaled up massive, bigger than their default size. I applied all transforms and scale/rotation to both the model and the skeleton. The 'rig' part is the correct scale, just the bones or armature part (however it's called) scaled up. Maybe it's not an issue? Love your channel by the way, discovered it literally an hour ago and already made more progress than a week of searching other places!

[@lucianomunoz]

You need to apply that in object mode to the armature, its not correct that if you fit your meta rig that it outputs a bigger or smaller rig, should be exactly the same, otherwise fitting the armature makes no sense at all. Thanks im glad it´s helping! Hit that like and subscribe button to help the channel grow and me create more videos :)

[@Inlet]

@@lucianomunoz Thanks for the speedy reply, it's fixed it now... well, the metarig and armature were right but the model scaled up, but just scaling it down so it fit within the rig didn't cause immeduate issues. However, after applying it (as in part 3), it works on the model's clothing (seperate models), but not on the body itself. It brings up "Bone Heat Weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones " message? It's too late to like and subscribe, already done it! And hit the bell for notifications!

[@Inlet]

@@lucianomunoz It's okay, I seem to have it now. I had to combine the objects and 'remove duplicate verts' to get it working. Kinda annoying as I'm not sure how simulating cloth phsyics is going to work now, but I'll get there when I get there. Thanks again for the help!

[@tomasmontesmassa6309]

buenísmo luciano gracias!! my rigify mentor!

[@lucianomunoz]

me alegro que sirva!

[@mekano6263]

man this is the best tutorial i have ever seen ❤❤❤ funny and deep in the same time i'm waiting for new videos from your channel bro 🌹🌹

[@lucianomunoz]

thank you!!! will do my best to put out once a week at least!

[@abstractwaves6166]

so helpfull thanks !

[@lucianomunoz]

Thanks ! happy it helps!

[@caturindrasukmana7673]

Nice video! I have problem when hit the generate rig. It shown error "Generation has thrown an exception". Do you know how to solve this? Thank you

[@lucianomunoz]

Probably deleted one specific bone ?, did you try again?

[@Endarz]

"nobody uses imperial" as an American, it is my prerogative to measure my character by baseball fields per square freedom great tutorial series, man

[@lucianomunoz]

"square freedom" ahahah genious. funny how americans call "imperial" measurement "freedom" units... they're the exact opposite. ask lord vader.

[@AkhlaqAhmad]

Why you did not tuch eyeball bone to set on the right place?

[@lucianomunoz]

I'm not sure I understand what you are asking, could you try explaining further?

[@AkhlaqAhmad]

@@lucianomunoz during the video You did not set the eyeball bone in place, I hope you understand.

[@lucianomunoz]

I think i did understand

[@reporteraaudiovisual]

awesome video!!!! xD

[@lucianomunoz]

Jacqueline Aguilera gracias!!!

[@panchoruizvalenzuela]

Nice class! Tks

[@lucianomunoz]

thanks francisco!, hope it helps!

[@phyzxengrmoore6928]

I have a human rig and when I make my blender options match yours this blender doesnt work the same. In edit mode I can move limbs but not in selection mode only in edit mode transform mode but then the rig isnt kinetic at all. And when is it necessary to do CTRL+P?

[@lucianomunoz]

Pose mode you need to be in, and then ctrl p is when the rig is ready to be connected to the geometry :)

[@SamuelBernou]

Also... subscribed ! love it :)

[@lucianomunoz]

thank you for the love

[@torokung-not-channal2706]

12:50 for no reason, btw this is good tutorial so far from other rigging

[@lucianomunoz]

xD, glad you like it

[@Ironpants57]

Sweet! Love the videos so far One thing that bothers me with current the rigify. After the rig is generated, the bone rolls are usually misaligned for legs and arms.

[@lucianomunoz]

hey !, thanks ! how is the rolls affecting you after the rig is created?, with the old rigify i had this issue that the upper arm would get a really bad twist, but i dont have that anymore, and with this i usually shift stuff around until it works

[@Ironpants57]

@@lucianomunoz It's usually in legs and arms. Once it's created, the hands and/or feet can have an odd initial rotation. Here is a pic with a basic workflow I've had to do recently; 2.82a. i.imgur.com/fUrmivp.png

[@lucianomunoz]

@@Ironpants57 got it it's because rigify in the "automatic way " puts the rolls based on where the bend on the arms and legs is poiting, I'll definitelly talk about that in the next video I dont remember if you can force it beside changin the bend angle.

[@Ironpants57]

@@lucianomunoz That would be awesome! Thank you!

[@anuarnor]

@@lucianomunoz if you select human metarig base joint let say the limb.super limb in pose mode you can change the roll evaluation to manual. I think it was roll axis or something.

[@cdrc14684]

Hola luciano como va?! Queria preguntarte cuando genero el rigify no me aparece esas lineas punteadas que representan el emparentado a los huesos, donde podria estar mi error?

[@cdrc14684]

Its all ready😁 = ✔relationship line

[@lucianomunoz]

persona ! me perdi el mensaje, !

[@CirrusMJ]

"I don't think this guy has a tit" Spit out my drink on that one.

[@lucianomunoz]

XD

[@davidcripps3011]

Fantastic....I've just got to the point where I'm adding rigs to characters and I find your channel. Great tutorial. One question: Do you think an animator should learn how to create a rig from scratch?

[@lucianomunoz]

It's not necessary at all, but if as an animator you want to be able to do your own pieces/animate your own characters, at least learning how to use an autorig is useful, In production we use a bunch of rigging techniques to ease the animation process but you time is always better spent learning to be a better animator that's for sure, at least that's how i see it :).

[@davidcripps3011]

@@lucianomunoz That makes sense. I'd really like to see how you can add to the armature, say, a cat tail to a human. Hope you do that some day :-)

[@lucianomunoz]

@@davidcripps3011 It's your lucky day, because that's coming in the next video (next sunday)

[@davidcripps3011]

@@lucianomunoz Awesome :-)

[@user-hy3pd8mz1g]

Amazing tutorial but when i press generate button (magic button) I just getting some error and i don't know what to do? My error is ran one time i will get a bone is not chiled of a bone another time i will get eybow bone is not child of face what should i do. do you think that it is because my blender version (2.91)or something else please help me By the way amazing tutorial can't wait to see more

[@lucianomunoz]

Interesting, maybe add the original metarig again and see what you deleted that could be causing issues, good luck!

[@user-hy3pd8mz1g]

@@lucianomunoz thank you it fixed i download blender 2.83 and it just worked tnaks man can you tell what is the music name (9:00)

[@lucianomunoz]

"Elevator Music by Corporate Music" you can find it in jamendo.com

[@strees_boyyt4184]

I get the error when i click generate rig, the error is "generation has thrown an exception:'NoneType' object has no attribute 'bones'" can u help me fixing my problem?

[@lucianomunoz]

I have no idea what the problem may be man so sorry, lets see if anyone else around here can help you!

[@strees_boyyt4184]

@@lucianomunoz its ok man thanks for reply my comment

[@andersonomori]

the facial part of the Rigify always scares me.

[@lucianomunoz]

Yeah, but it's scary more than anything, great thing is that the rigging system in blender is not easy to break, so you can undo and change things and test out stuff really quickly without much to worry about.

[@talonstride]

It's simple once you understand how to set up the face rig in the correct position of the character face.

[@alvisefusaro529]

Hi, great tutorial man! I'm having issues with importing my character, can u help me?

[@lucianomunoz]

Yes of course: gumroad.com/lucianomunoz#yfrDe

[@PauloSamurai]

You can type dimensions directly

[@lucianomunoz]

yes I can, and you can too! :)

[@jbanimations8475]

Hey! I am not sure what your message at the end of the video is, but I have a wild guess: do we need to subscribe?? :P

[@lucianomunoz]

I think you got it wrong, but if you subscribe it will make me happy :D

[@jbanimations8475]

@@lucianomunoz I guess I can't read the between-the-lines-subtelty! But I subscribed a while ago bro!

[@TeRealArabJohnny]

I'm sorry man but I lost so much time on this error and I need a fix, I cannot make the magic button work, the error that appears is: Generation has thrown an exception: list index out of range . I'm using blender's human meta-rig, could you please help me? It would be so nice, love your vids btw! The error came just after another error which said "heel bone not found", I think I fixed that by adding a new bone between the ankle one and the heel bone.

[@lucianomunoz]

Im sorry I'm still computerless so there isnt much I can do, but poke around the community, there are always people wanting to help!

[@TeRealArabJohnny]

The Adventures of LollypopMan thanks for the answer, I finally was able to overcome it, but I had to restart... i messed up too much wit the base rig, and it didn’t detected some bones. But now new problems... but I think that’s the blender’s way to teach you things

[@seanerer]

How come when I press the MAGIC button... I only get a rig for the arms, hands, and root? No rig for the legs, feet, and so on?

[@lucianomunoz]

do you have any legs?, does the top bone on each leg have the Rig Type assigned? give me some extra info so i can help you, maybe put a link with a screenshot or a video :)

[@seanerer]

@@lucianomunoz Thanks, looks like you can't rename the bones before pressing the MAGIC button. I'm going to delete everything and try again. Really appreciate the help... :)

[@lucianomunoz]

@@seanerer That's weird, i think as long as the names and hierarchies are consistent it should just work (that's my experience at least).

[@seanerer]

@@lucianomunoz Maybe the right and left names were slightly different and that caused the issue? I'm just guessing... Thanks again...

[@lucianomunoz]

@@seanerer weird... possible but weird.

[@JimKroovy]

I can't stand rigify but your videos are really well presented good job! Keep going! : )

[@lucianomunoz]

why ? whats your problem with rigify?, thanks for the nice comments !, I'll keep it up!

[@JimKroovy]

Don't get me wrong it's a great tool to start learning to rig and animate with! It just doesn't have soft IK, twist controls, modular parts, etc and i have to rebuild almost the entire rig to do more advanced character animation. Aaaand i don't like it's custom shapes but that's only a cosmetic complaint ; )

[@lucianomunoz]

​@@JimKroovy Yeah i agree with most of what you say, but what do you mean it doesnt have modular parts? its all modules that you plug together, the bendi controls arent great they could be much better, but that should go into a "feature request list" haha that we could give the guy, or maybe we just learn how to make rig types, which I probably will end up doing. and regarding the shapes, I have my own issues not only with the shapes but with the colors, things that I will touch upon in part 3, given that its part of the Rig's UI/UX that is very important, the faster you understand what each control does, the faster you get up to speed to start animating, and also coloring and shape and size will tell will help visually define sides, function and hierarchy. so not just cosmetic.

[@JimKroovy]

@@lucianomunoz I haven't actually used rigify in ages so maybe they added more modularity to it? Either that or i just never figured out how to do it in a modular way. My biggest issue is it not having many controls that i rely on, so that's partially a personal issue with it : ) Yeah 100% the faster you learn the controls the faster you can animate! I don't often use colouring to define the sides though i probably should do (at least for targets and poles) If you like we can chat on Discord or Twitter? I love talking about rigging in Blender and would totally be up for putting forward a feature request for Rigify!

[@lucianomunoz]

@@JimKroovy yeah look for me on twitter @lucianomunoz_ otherwise here is good, It also keeps the conversation related to the course and rigify in a place where other people can benefit from it too.

[@fotografiaemmersonsantos1936]

You is very Funny! Cool!

[@lucianomunoz]

Thank you !, i'm glad I can put a smile on people's faces!

[@IshBosamiya]

Yay!

[@lucianomunoz]

💪

[@RenierBoshoff]

Thanks for this! Looking forward to Adventures! Just 2 suggestions: Add Screen Cast display please! Perhaps move your face out of the properties tab and into the 3d viewport corner.

[@lucianomunoz]

Do you recommend any screencasting keystrokes app ? I dont particularly like the one from blender, and I believe it doesnt work in 2.8. And yeah I'll do better with moving myself out of the way ! thank you man !

[@andycuccaro]

@@lucianomunoz I've been liking shortcut_VUr, by Jayanam. While I'm here, I would like to ask if you are planning to tackle Rigify's facial rigging and adding new bone chains (like, for rigging ponytails, skirts, cloaks, etc.). Thanks a lot for this series, btw.

[@lucianomunoz]

@@andycuccaro thanks for the suggestion, just dowloaded and tested it!, very cool. We'll yeah i set the bones in this part, and we'll see how that turns out, I'm not really fond of the face that rigify comes with, but I know a new one is in the works, I will do something about ponytails and such extras but in further videos that will be part of this course. thank you a lot for enjoying it!

[@midnightmediareview]

When I generate rig I get "error: Bone 'spine': input to rig type must be a chain of 3 or more bones" I deleted a bone in the spine right above the pelvis bone so I know thats whats causing the error. What I don't know is how to get it back without realigning the rig all over again. Any help?

[@lucianomunoz]

you may have cut down too many bones on the spine, it must be 3 or more bones/

[@medictssolutions7633]

Hi.Thanks for the tutorial.what can I do to fix this error.RIGIFY ERROR: Bone 'spine.004': Cannot connect chain - bone position is disjoint. Incorrect armature for type 'chain_rigs' I have tried cursor to selected on spine for and then selected to cursor on spine .003 but still having same error

[@lucianomunoz]

someone had the same issue check in the comments in this same video i think 2 or 3 diferent people provided a simple solution for it ! :)

[@medictssolutions7633]

Problem fixed.The reason is that the top of the spine (spine.003) and the root of the neck (spine.004) were separated when editing the position of the bone. Select the top of the spine (spine.003), right-click to display the context menu and select "Snap/Cursor → Select" to put the 3D cursor on the tail of the top bone of the spine (spine.003). Next, select the head of the bone at the base of the neck (spine.004), right-click and select "Snap/Selection→Cursor" from the context menu.The top of the spine (spine.003) should be correctly connected to the base of the neck (spine.004) and the Generate button error should go away with this

[@creyesder]

Excelente y muy claro. Ahora entendí que estaba haciendo mal. Cómo siempre aprendiendo algo más contigo 👍🏻

[@lucianomunoz]

gracias carlitos, eres el mejor!

[@nikhilkumar4892]

my mirror bone butterfly option always disapear i cant find it in my object /edit/pose mode plz help how to enable it again

[@lucianomunoz]

Oh weird, It's never happened to me

[@eganamarshall]

Wena compare

[@lucianomunoz]

Esa pedro, gracias por el apoyo!

[@dmichay6739]

buena, me gustaria ver como se ve en acción ese rigging facial... nunca pude entender como aplicarlo o como funciona de manera directa.... Saludos

[@lucianomunoz]

es bastante malo, pero ya lo veremos en el proximo capitulo!

[@LuperAnimations]

for thet ending u got sub from me xDDDDDDDDD

[@lucianomunoz]

hahahahahaha, you made me watch it again, didnt remember how much of an idiot i am xD

[@juliocargnin]

Ctrl+P?

[@lucianomunoz]

you got it!!

[@juliocargnin]

Looking forward to the next episode... ;) and thanks for this series!

[@lucianomunoz]

@@juliocargnin No problem Julio ! Im glad it helps!