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Auto-rigging addon for Blender
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Auto-rigging addon for Blender
INTRODUCTION ------------ Rigify is an auto-rigging system based on a "building blocks" paradigm. The user can create a rig by putting together any combination of rig types, in any configuration that they want. A rig type is something like "biped arm" or "spine" or "finger". The input to the Rigify system is something called a "metarig". It is an armature that contains data about how to construct the rig. In particular, it contains bones in the basic configuration of the rig, with some bones tagged to indicate the rig type. For example, a metarig might contain a chain of three bones, the root-most of which is tagged as being a biped arm. When given as input to Rigify, Rigify will then generate a fully-featured biped arm rig in the same position and proportions as the 3-bone chain. One could also have another chain of bones, the root-most of which is tagged as being a spine. And the root-most bone of the arm chain could be the child of any of those spine bones. Then the rig that Rigify generates would be a spine rig with an arm rig attached to it. THE GUTS OF RIGIFY, SUMMARIZED ------------------------------ The concept behind rigify is fairly simple. It recieves an armature as input with some of the bones tagged as being certain rig types (arm, leg, etc.) When Rigify recieves that armature as input, the first thing it does is duplicate the armature. From here on out, the original armature is totally ignored. Only the duplicate is used. And this duplicate armature object will become the generated rig. Rigify next prepends "ORG-" to all of the bones. These are the "original" bones of the metarig, and they are used as the glue between rig types, as I will explain later. Rigify then generates the rig in two passes. The first pass is the "information gathering" stage. The information gathering stage doesn't modify the armature at all. It simply gathers information about it. Or, rather, it lets the rig types gather information about it. It traverses the bones in a root-most to leaf-most order, and whenever it stumbles upon a bone that has a rig type tagged on it, it creates a rig-type python object (rig types will be explained further down) for that rig type, and executes the resulting python object's information gathering code. At the end of the information gathering stage, Rigify has a collection of python objects, each of which know all the information they need to generate their own bit of the rig. The next stage is the rig generation stage. This part is pretty simple. All Rigify does is it loops over all of the rig-type python objects that it created in the previous stage (also in root-most to leaf-most order), and executes their rig-generate code. All of the actual rig generation happens in the rig-type python objects. And that's pretty much it. As you can see, most of the important code is actually in the rig types themselves, not in Rigify. Rigify is pretty sparse when it comes right down to it. There is one final stage to rig generation. Rigify checks all of the bones for "DEF-", "MCH-", and "ORG-" prefixes, and moves those bones to their own layers. It also sets all of the "DEF-" bones to deform, and sets all other bones to _not_ deform. And finally, it looks for any bone that does not have a parent, and sets the root bone (which Rigify creates) as their parent. THE GUTS OF A RIG TYPE, BASIC ----------------------------- A rig type is simply a python module containing a class named "Rig", and some optional module functions. The Rig class has only two methods: __init__() and generate() __init__() is the "information gathering" code for the rig type. When Rigify loops through the bones and finds a tagged bone, it will create a python object from the Rig class, executing this method. In addition to the default "self" parameter, __init__() needs to take the armature object, the name of the bone that was tagged, and a parameters object. A proper rig-type __init__() will look like this: def __init__(self, obj, bone_name, params): # code goes here At the bare minimum, you are going to want to store the object and bone name in the rig type object for later reference in the generate() method. So: def __init__(self, obj, bone_name, params): self.obj = obj self.org_bone = bone_name Most rig types involve more than just that one bone, though, so you will also want to store the names of any other relevant bones. For example, maybe the parent of the tagged bone is important to the rig type: def __init__(self, obj, bone_name, params): self.obj = obj self.org_bone = bone_name self.org_parent = obj.data.bones[bone_name].parent.name It is important that you store the _names_ of the bones, and not direct references. Due to the inner workings of Blender's armature system, direct edit-bone and pose-bone references are lost when flipping in and out of armature edit mode. (Arg...) Remember that it is critical that the information-gathering method does _not_ modify the armature in any way. This way all of the rig type's info-gathering methods can execute on a clean armature. Many rig types depend on traversing parent-child relationships to figure out what bones are relevant to them, for example. Next is the generate() method. This is the method that Rigify calls to actually generate the rig. It takes the form: def generate(self): # code goes here It doesn't take any parameters beyond "self". So you have to store any information you need with the __init__() method. generate() pretty much has free reign to do whatever it wants, with the exception of two simple rules: 1. Other than the "ORG-" bones, do not touch anything that is not created by the rig type (this prevents rig types from messing each other up). 2. Even with "ORG-" bones, the only thing you are allowed to do is add children and add constraints. Do not rename them, do not remove children or constraints, and especially do not change their parents. (Adding constraints and adding children are encouraged, though. ;-)) This is because the "ORG-" bones are the glue that holds everything together, and changing them beyond adding children/constraints ruins the glue, so to speak. In short: with the exception of adding children/constraints to "ORG-" bones, only mess with things that you yourself create. It is also generally a good idea (though not strictly required) that the rig type add constraints to the "ORG-" bones it was generated from so that the "ORG-" bones move with the animation controls. For example, if I make a simple arm rig type, the controls that the animator uses should also move the "ORG-" bones. That way, any other rig-types that are children of those "ORG-" bones will move along with them. For example, any fingers on the end of the arm. Also, any bones that the animator should not directly animate with should have their names prefixed with "DEF-" or "MCH-". The former if it is a bone that is intended to deform the mesh, the latter if it is not. It should be obvious, then, that a bone cannot be both an animation control and a deforming bone in Rigify. This is on purpose. Also note that there are convenience functions in utils.py for prepending "DEF-" and "MCH-" to bone names: deformer() and mch() There is also a convenience function for stripping "ORG-" from a bone name: strip_org() Which is useful for removing "ORG-" from bones you create by duplicating the "ORG-" bones. I recommend you use these functions instead of manually adding/stripping these prefixes. That way if the prefixes are changed, it can be changed in one place (those functions) and all the rig types will still work. THE GUTS OF A RIG TYPE, ADVANCED -------------------------------- If you look at any of the rig types included with Rigify, you'll note that they have several functions outside of the Rig class. THESE ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS ARE _NOT_ REQUIRED for a rig type to function. But they can add some nifty functionality to your rig. Here are the additional functions relevant to Rigify, with brief decriptions of what they are for: RIG PARAMETERS -------------- For many rig types, it is handy for the user to be able to tweak how they are generated. For example, the included biped arm rig allows the user to specify the axis of rotation for the elbow. There are two functions necessary to give a rig type user-tweakable parameters: add_parameters() parameters_ui() add_parameters() takes an IDPropertyGroup as input, and adds its parameters to that group as RNA properties. For example: def add_parameters(params): params.toggle_param = bpy.props.BoolProperty(name="Test toggle:", default=False, description="Just a test, not really used for anything.") parameters_ui() recieves a Blender UILayout object and an IDPropertyGroup containing the parameters added by add_parameters(). It creates a GUI in the UILayout for the user to tweak those parameters. For example: def parameters_ui(layout, params): r = layout.row() r.prop(params, "toggle_param") SAMPLE METARIG -------------- It is a good idea for all rig types to have a sample metarig that the user can add to their own metarig. This is what the create_sample() function is for. create_sample() takes the current armature object as input, and adds the bones for its rig-type's metarig. For example: def create_sample(obj): bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='EDIT') arm = obj.data bone = arm.edit_bones.new('Bone') bone.head[:] = 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000 bone.tail[:] = 0.0000, 0.0000, 1.0000 bone.roll = 0.0000 bone.use_connect = False bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='OBJECT') pbone = obj.pose.bones[bone] pbone.rigify_type = 'copy' pbone.rigify_parameters.add() Obviously, this isn't something that you generally want to hand-code, especially with more complex samples. When in edit-mode on an armature, there is a "Rigify Dev Tools" panel in the View3d tools panel containing a button labeled "Encode Sample to Python". This button will generate the python code for create_sample() from the armature you are editing. The generated code appears in a text block called "metarig_sample.py" GENERATING A PYTHON UI ---------------------- The generate() method can also, optionally, return python code as a single string. This python code is added to the "rig properties" panel that gets auto-generated along with the rig. This is useful for exposing things like IK/FK switches in a nice way to the animator. The string must be returned in a list, e.g.: return ["my python code"] The reason it needs to be put in a list is to leave room for expanding the API in the future, for returning additional information.
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