This is a simple addon that I made a few months ago, at the time I did not have internet so I am releasing it now, its basically just a panel of convenience, try it out and let me know what you think.
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Here is a screenshot:
All this functionality can be found elsewhere in Blender however the “Shape to Bone” can be very useful for snapping custom objects to a bone in order to quickly modify it in edit mode.
Here is what the panel looks like in pose mode:
There is two other panel configuration for Object Mode and Armature Edit Mode.
All this functionality can be found elsewhere in Blender with the exception of the “Shape to Bone” operator located at the bottom, this button snaps an assigned bone shape to the loc/rot/scale of the given bone.
To be honest I have become very used to using this panel and I find that it speeds up the rigging process. Let me know what you think and give me any suggestions & improvements that you may come up with and think I should implement.
As a side note, that deform: operator is a toggle that hides the fields underneath it when the bone does not deform.
Here is what the panel looks like in pose mode:
There is two other panel configuration for Object Mode and Armature Edit Mode.
All this functionality can be found elsewhere in Blender with the exception of the “Object to Bone” operator located at the bottom, this button snaps an assigned bone shape to the loc/rot/scale of the given bone.
To be honest I have become very used to using this panel and I find that it speeds up the rigging process. Let me know what you think and give me any suggestions & improvements that you may come up with and think I should implement.
As a side note, even though this was my first script written in any programming language, I don’t think there is any flaws in the coding and this may be a good resource for anyone that needs a reference for panel creation and simple operator creation.