Bone order in bones list

[isby]

Very dumb question guys: I have a lot of bones... "hand left", "foot right", etc. and now I'd like to order them somehow in the dropdown, for more efficiency. Currently they're ordered in the order they were created and, of course, there was a LOT of mind-changing, name changing, etc.
Can it be done, or should I just re-create the whole skeleton?

Thank you!

Ivan

[SimplSam]

I would imagine the Bones are sorted by ID by default, so in theory - to Sort you would need a script to:

- Inventory the current bones (ID & Name)
- Duplicate each bone, but in alphabetical order
- Assign old relationships to the new bones (i.e. Targets, Parents etc.) with new related ID's
- ReAssign animation properties (i.e. Locking, Binding etc.)
- Delete the original bones

There are probably some bits of this script already out there in Moholand.

[synthsin75]

It would be easier to make a mod of the bone tool that just displays them in a different order.

But yeah, short of a script, you'd need to recreate the whole skeleton if you really want them in a specific order.

[synthsin75]

If you haven't recreated your whole skeleton yet, wait. I've found an easy way to sort the bone dropdowns, and I'm almost done with it.

[synthsin75]

Here's a script that will sort all bone dropdowns alphabetically, with auto-named bones listed after all named bones.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uvt6c1qku5j7v ... s.zip?dl=0

Just unzip and drop this into the scripts/utility folder in your custom content folder.


For interested scripters, this replaces two functions in the lm_utilities, so no stock tools (or even the stock utilities file) needed to be modded.

[SimplSam]

Amazing and elegant. Works a treat, and probably gonna start me on a whole 'nother path of scripting.

[isby]

If you haven't recreated your whole skeleton yet, wait. I've found an easy way to sort the bone dropdowns, and I'm almost done with it.

Luckily, I'm in a completely oposite time zone, apparently Thank you!
It works! Just a note, it disables the "select bone" dropdown button until you've selected any bone by clicking on it. Not a big deal, since I'm a fresh user, might require some adjustment for a long-time user.
Thank you again!

[synthsin75]

It works! Just a note, it disables the "select bone" dropdown button until you've selected any bone by clicking on it. Not a big deal, since I'm a fresh user, might require some adjustment for a long-time user.
Thank you again!

That's normal behavior...not my script. I can tell you how to edit the stock tool if it bothers you. Not sure when they changed that, but it's the same going back to at least v11.2.

Anyway, sorted bone lists is something I wanted too.

[A.Evseeva]

The link is broken :о((( Does anybody have this script downloaded?

[synthsin75]

I've updated the above link.

[A.Evseeva]

Thank You very much! Works fine.