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Smart bone that can use 2 bones. Hotkey for parent bone in Layer panel.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:05 am
by Stef Armchair Prod
Hi all

I have a couple of features I hope might already be hiding somewhere. If not any help would be greatly appreciated.

1.Is there a smart bone that can use two bones instead of one to activate its blendshape? For example, I would like to have both a head rotate and a head tilt when they're at their most extreme poses activate a corrective. This is so that they don't conflict and break the rig but I can't find any options for it. Would be super handy.

2.Is there a hotkey that selects the parent bone group in the layer panel? Often I am fiddling around with vectors and points and then want to go back to the bone layer to tinker with them but every time I have to scroll back up to the top of the layer panel. A quick way to do this would be great.

Re: Smart bone that can use 2 bones. Hotkey for parent bone in Layer panel.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:04 am
by SimplSam
for 1 (Smart Bone fixer): I don't think you can say if SB1 is here and SB2 is there then [Do This]. There is however a script to help ... see lucasfranca's answer below.

for 2 (Select Bone Layer): There is also a script: https://mohoscripts.com/script/am_select_bonelayer. I have it assigned to key shortcut: Shift ^ (which is logical for me).

Re: Smart bone that can use 2 bones. Hotkey for parent bone in Layer panel.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:32 am
by JoelMayer
Select parent bone layer shortcut in vanilla Moho would be greatly appreciated, i agree...

Re: Smart bone that can use 2 bones. Hotkey for parent bone in Layer panel.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:39 am
by hayasidist
Land of dreams: node-based editors for actions....

Re: Smart bone that can use 2 bones. Hotkey for parent bone in Layer panel.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:25 am
by lucasfranca
SimplSam wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:04 am for 1 (Smart Bone fixer): I don't think you can say if SB1 is here and SB2 is there then [Do This]. There is however a script https://mohoscripts.com/script/mr_transform_rig_tool which is designed (in part) to fix/adjust conflicting Smart Bone deformations.

for 2 (Select Bone Layer): There is also a script: https://mohoscripts.com/script/am_select_bonelayer. I have it assigned to key shortcut: Shift ^ (which is logical for me).
I think the script he’s looking for is A. Evseeva’s Mix smartbone: [url]https:///mohoscripts.com/script/ae_mix_smartbones[/url]

It can define that Rig will behave somewhat when the A+B bone is triggered at its extremes.

Re: Smart bone that can use 2 bones. Hotkey for parent bone in Layer panel.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 12:04 pm
by SimplSam
Yeah - sounds better.

Re: Smart bone that can use 2 bones. Hotkey for parent bone in Layer panel.

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:10 am
by Stef Armchair Prod
Thanks everyone, really appreciate the help. Will be trying these out and reporting back. :D