adding another bone at the beginning of a chain

how can I add a new bone at the beginning of a chain? I want to re-use an armature, but to get good results, I would have to add that bone…
a little more specific: I’ve got an armature of a hand starting at the lower arm. Now I want to add a new bone on top: the upper arm, and I want to be able to work with IK-bones, so that new bone should be part of the chain… how can I do this??

thanx

  • Bentagon

Just make the new bone parent of the first bone in your chain. Click the IK toggle too.

http://www.clubinfo.bdeb.qc.ca/~theeth/Temp/BoneParent.jpg

Martin