Tuto 3.4 : reparent bones

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marima
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Tuto 3.4 : reparent bones

Post by marima »

I'm trying to understand tuto 3.4.
I don't succeed very well with "reparent bones"
Here's what I did : I selected the right lower arm, then activated "reparent bones", then clicked on the upper arm and it worked... and so on.
But for the character's left arm, impossible to link it to the torso's upper bone.I selected the arm's upper bone, activate "reparent bone", clicked on the torso's upper bone...but the arrow does not join it and stays on the torso's lower bone.
Could somebody explain to me where the mistake is, and how to make the wrong arrow disappear ?
Thanks.
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Rasheed
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Post by Rasheed »

The procedure is as follows when you have selected the reparent bone tool:
  • while pressing the alt key, left-click on the child bone
  • release the alt key
  • left-click on the parent bone
So, in this case, you alt-click on the upper arm bone and click on the upper torso bone, and alt-click on the lower arm bone and click on the upper arm bone. If you've done that, the bones will be connected as they should be.
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Post by marima »

Thank you!
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