Handled Bendy Bones

Coding Released Scripts and Themes
,
1

After following this excellent tutorial about how to add handles to a Bendy Bone: [noparse]http://bit.ly/NimbleBB[/noparse]
[It was on nimblecollective.com but apparently they removed it. You can watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/181807778 ]

I decided to create an Addon to do those steps. Now you can get a Bendy Bone with Handles with a simple shortcut.

Once the addon is installed you just need to select the bone and type ctrl-shift-b.

The addon also adds drivers so you can scale the bone by scaling the handles.

Small demo:

You can obtain the Addon here: https://payhip.com/b/slWb

Attachments

hbb2.png960×540 22.2 KB

4 Likes
2

This looks great! Thank you for sharing.

3

thanks a lot for this, very helpful

4

Thank you guys.

5

well done man!

6

Very nice, thanks!

7

The very interesting, thanks

8

Thank you. It’s working in 2.79 RC2.

9

this url is not available

Here’s an excellent explanation of how handles work and how to add them manually: http://bit.ly/NimbleBB

10

Looks so usefull I think it should be default behavior when adding bendy bones :slight_smile:

11

It was on nimblecollective.com but apparently they removed it. You can watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/181807778

12

I have managed to make my own handles! Yeepeee! Getting the hang of it… I have decided I love Bendy Bones. Thank you all the geniuses who made it happened!

More Custom Handle Reference videos here…

Blender 2.78 Bendy Bones TutorialMore involved setting up of handles, with custom driver

Bendy Bones cartoon mouth setup

And Pepeland video found only on Vimeo

13

Hi! I’ve downloaded your script and it has worked almost smoothly, but the bone I get looks different from yours in your tutorial. Is theer a way to fix it (I use Blender 2.79 and it shows me the yellow exclamation sign in addon properties saying that it is compatible with 2.78)

Thanks

2017-10-06 19_55_07-Blender.png456×653 6.31 KB

14

Did you scale the bone instead of the handles? Can you share your .blend file?

15

@Terrible Sorry, i’ve missed the notification. Yes, that was the problem - i scaled the bone, not the handle. It’s ok now, thanks

Are you planning to update the plugin?

1 Like
16

HI, have you planned an update for 2.8 ???

2 Likes
17

I would like to know as well!

18

Also wondering if there will be a 2.8 update

3 Likes
19

There is also this plugin that hasn’t been updated

1 Like
20

i love this addon in 2.7 please bring to 2.8 :smiley:

1 Like