StepByStep
This guide assumes you already installed add-on, if you have not installed it yet or the installation is broken, you will not be able to follow this guide.
ReadMe.md in main repository will help understand concepts and re-target method used in this add-on, you may read it first if you are not sure what's happening while follow this guide.
The panel "QuickMap" should in side panel area with other panel tab
If you do not see this panel list, try press "N" in 3D view port.
If "QuickMap" tab is missing, check your plugin installation and make sure its enabled.
Select the armature you want to copy animation to, and the Generate Control Button will appear.
Re-target only works in object mode, but sometimes mode will automatically be changed to Edit Mode while you click on armature. Generate Control button will disappear while mode or object type miss-match.
Click Generate Control, and a list of bone name in Source Armature will be shown in list bellow.
You can filter list by name of source bone, the link icon is used to toggle Linked Only bone.
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Filter By Name is a simple way to quickly find the bone you want.
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Linked Only will filter bones that have link configured, and bones without link will be hidden in the list.
After you have a source list, you can now begin to re-target.
First of all, you must select the Target Armature where your target animation is on.
After the Target Armature is selected, you will then have the choice to build follow chain from.
Select the bone you want to follow in the Source Bone List above.
Once a Source Bone is selected, select Target Bone to follow with. After the Source Bone and Target Bone is selected, you can now configure how it is linked to Target Armature.
- Location toggles whether Source Bone will follow Follower A with location copied
- Rotation toggles whether Source Bone will follow Follower A with rotation copied.
- Relative Rotation controls the relative rotation between Follower A and Follower B.
- Relative Location controls the relative location between Follower A and Follower B.
Note: Location follow will not success if your bone is attached to parent bone.
This always happen while you want to just test this plugin, if you press E to extrude bone, they are attached and linked by default.
Save button will save all the link configure you specified in this panel.
You can save configure out before bake as something may break blender down. You can also load configure back if you want do re-target between the same armatures next time.
Bake Control is used to bake out animation to Source Armature, to avoid unexpected errors, all the constrains will be cleared. Refresh Control is here to help take constrains back to our re-target system.