{"id":4267,"date":"2018-09-24T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T09:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avastar.guru\/?page_id=4267"},"modified":"2018-09-24T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T09:37:13","slug":"empty-groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/help\/n-panel\/avastar\/weight-copy\/empty-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"rhcol span10\">\n<h2><image src=\"\/avastar\/292\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/approve_logo_280.png\" style=\"width:120px;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:0px;margin-right:10px;\"><\/image> Empty Groups<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rhcol span2\">\n<a class=\"mamap\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/map-weight-copy-empty.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/map-weight-copy-empty.png\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"rhcol span7\">\n<div class=\"symple-box  blueish center \" style=\"text-align:left;\"> Only empty weight maps are created. You may want to use this option when you prepare a mesh for entirely manual weighting. You normaly do not need strategy option.<\/div>\n<h3>For (bones)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Selected Enabled Deform Bones<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nCreate Weight maps for the selected bones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select the Mesh<\/li>\n<li>SHIFT select the Armature in Pose mode<\/li>\n<li>Select all bones you want to take into account for the weight copy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Visible Enabled Deform Bones<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nCreate weight maps only for the currently visible bones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select the Mesh<\/li>\n<li>SHIFT Select the Armature in Pose mode<\/li>\n<li>Make all bones visible which you want to take into account for the weight copy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Enabled Deform Bones<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nCreate weight maps for all bones enabled below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select the Mesh<\/li>\n<li>Avastar take all Deform Bones into account for the Weight Copy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rhcol span5\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1252.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7096 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1252.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1252.png 419w, https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1252-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Tip:<\/span> <\/strong>Make Bones visible\/invisible: You can hide\/show bone groups using the Rig Display panel. Or you can open the Armature in pose mode and hide individual bones (use &#8220;h&#8221; to hide selected bones and &#8220;ALT h&#8221; to make hidden bones visible)<\/p>\n<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"rhcol span7\">\n<h3>Enabled Deform Bone Groups<\/h3>\n<p>The content of the created weight maps is highly dependent on which bones are marked as deform bones (bones which actually can influence the meshes by using weight maps)<\/p>\n<p>For more about Targets and Sources see next chapter below<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rhcol span5\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1257.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7133 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1257.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1257.png 419w, https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1257-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>By default only the SL Base bones (the legacy skeleton) is enabled. For Extended (Bento-) Rigs also the Hands and Face bones are enabled by default. But you can change this configuration in the <em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Enabled Deform Bone Groups<\/span> <\/em>Section (see image)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The setting here only controls the behavior of the Weight generator! otherwise this setting is completely independent from what you have configured elsewhere in Blender (either in the Rig Config panel, or in the Bone properties window) .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important for <em>Automatic from Bones<\/em>):<\/strong> Please keep the Volume bones disabled when you use the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Automatic from Bones<\/em><\/span> Method. Otherwise the generated weight maps will become totally wrong for this case.<\/p>\n<h3>Targets and Sources<\/h3>\n<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"rhcol span7\">\n<p>Below the method selector you find 2 text lines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>n Selected\/visible\/deform bones used.<\/li>\n<li>m deform bones enabled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The content of the 2 lines is derived from<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the For: Selection (for which bones you want weight maps)<\/li>\n<li>the Enabled Deform Bone Groups you have enabled<\/li>\n<li>The visible\/selected bones in the Armature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rhcol span5\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1258.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7134 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1258.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>The first line:<\/h4>\n<p>In this example we have chosen the scope <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Selected enabled Deform Bones<\/em><\/span>. However we have not selected any bone, hence <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>No selected bone used<\/em><\/span><em> Fix: Select<\/em> at least one bone which is a member of one of the selected deform bone groups.<\/p>\n<h4>The second line:<\/h4>\n<p>Here you see the number of bones which are contained in the selected deform Groups (98 in the example above).<\/p>\n<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"rhcol span7\">\n<p><strong>Hint:<\/strong> When the scope is <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Enabled Deform Bones<\/em><\/span>, then the number of target maps is identical to the number of Enabled Deform bones!<\/p>\n<p>In this example we have selected the legacy bones (SL Base), Hands and Face, hence we get maps for 98 bones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rhcol span5\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1259.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7135 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1259.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n\n<h3>Generator options<\/h3>\n<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"rhcol span7\">\n<p>You have one more option to specify what exactly the generator shall create for you. See below for a more detailed description<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rhcol span5\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1263.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7146 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1263.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1263.png 419w, https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/293\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image1263-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>X-Mirror<\/h4>\n<p>Makes sure that when you have selected bones only from one side of the rig, the bones on the opposite side are also included even when not selected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Known glitch in Avastar-2.5: The number of <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>target maps found<\/em><\/span> currently does not count deselected mirrored bones, however the generator still creates the mirrored maps as expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empty Groups Generator options You have one more option to specify what exactly the generator shall create for you. See below for a more detailed description X-Mirror Makes sure that when you have selected bones only from one side of the rig, the bones on the opposite side are also included even when not selected. 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