adding bones to an existing armature

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#1

Hi all. I have an armature of my character DukDuk and I’d like to add a few more bones to him. When I add them, they don’t show up under the list of bones available for weight painting. I know I could re parent the revised armature to the character but I spent a bit of time tweaking the weight painting and don’t want to go all the way back to that initial stage with the character. Any advice appreciated,

Glenn

#2

I have no idea about weight painting… but all the vertex association stays in tact when un-parenting and then re-parenting…just choose “name groups” and it will add them all to the list…

give it a try on a test blend… let us know if it works :slight_smile:

also there is an add group feature in the meshes edit buttons… I have never tried it, but it might work if you give it the exact bone name as you added… please never quote me on this :smiley:

#3

“I have no idea about weight painting… but all the vertex association stays in tact when un-parenting and then re-parenting…just choose “name groups” and it will add them all to the list…”

Worked beautifully!
Thanks MMph.
Glenn

#4

you could also have just created some new vertex groups and named them the same as the bones- that’s what “name bones” does when you parent a mesh to an armature. I’ve had trouble with it making multiples of groups if I use “name bones” more than once on a single mesh…