https://github.com/felixschl/bake-rigify

Strips rigify-styled rigs down to their deformation bones and bakes their animations
https://github.com/felixschl/bake-rigify

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Strips rigify-styled rigs down to their deformation bones and bakes their animations

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/felixschl/bake-rigify
• Owner: felixSchl
• Created: 2013-07-01T20:31:07.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-02-23T00:53:37.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-11T23:54:31.171Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://felixschlitter.com/tool/bake-rigify
• Size: 18.6 KB
• Stars: 16
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md

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Bake Rigify

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> Strips rigify-styled rigs down to their deformation bones and bakes their animations.

## How it works

In essence, the operator

* Duplicates the selected armature

* Creates a bone for each deformation bone (called `DEF-` bones) in armature (called `EXP-` bones)

* Parents each bone to the `root` bone (that bone must exist in the original armature)

* Parent constraints the new bones to their deformation bone counterparts

* Bakes the selected set of actions (all | selected | active)

* Discards all but duplicated bones

* Renames remaining `EXP-` bones back to what they were called, so assigned weights will work etc.

## Installation

* Download the [Latest Release archive zip](https://github.com/felixSchl/bake-rigify/releases)

* In Blender's add-on manager (File-->User Preferences-->Addons), using

  `Install from File`, install the zip downloaded.

* Now enable the `Bake Rigify` addon.

## Usage

* Select an armature in Object mode.

* In the Properties Panel, under the Armature data tab, expand `Rigify Bake` and hit the button there.

## Using a non-rigify rig

This script is making use of rigify conventions, where

* There is one `root` bone named `root`.

* Deformation bones are called `DEF-`. These are the only bones that will be exported apart from the special `root` bone.

## Caveats

This tool discards all hierarichal information. All bones have a single parent, the `root`.