I have made this mech, that has multiple Objects, and I wanted to give the mech bones and animate the mech.
I first tried it with the conventional method, just making some bones with extruding and anything, but it didnt really turned out how I wanted to, so I had the not so genius idea to just make a lot of seperated bones with seperate Armatures and parent them.
The animation works and everything, but I have to import this mech with more animations later in Unity… and now I just have a lot of Armatures, and a lot of small animations, and it’s really inconvenient, and doesn’t work at all.
So how can I make this into just one, normal Armature? Can the bones be connected in any way?
I just hope that I don’t have to make the whole rigging again.
Can’t tell anything from your images, but one bone per armature is not the way to go. I suspect you scaled and rotated the armatures in Object Mode, which is why they totally FUBAR when you join them. How did you parent the meshes to the bones, I have no idea. Did all these armatures have a common origin, again I have no idea.
Post the blend file to pasteall.org/blend then post the link here and we can look at it for you.
Welcome to BA by the way, please remember that generally it is a good idea to post blend files with your issue in them, it does not need to be a large file, just enough for us to work with.
Thanks for the reply, I just deleted all of the bones and made one completely new Armature, and it works perfectly fine now.
I only had two animations or so, so no big deal.
And thank you for the tip with the blend file, I will definitely remember that for the future!
Yes, what clockmender said pretty much. As far as parenting goes, mechs +should+ be a lot easer to rig than bendy, organic characters, since you only have to deal with simple parenting or basic weights. But like he said, post your .blend Good luck!
Good luck!