IK Rig Help?!

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I made this Minecraft rig a few weeks ago and have been improving it since then. It is fully IK rigged but didn’t have a root bone. Today I tried to add one and parent everything to it… And now here is the result…

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No clue what happened. Even after deleting the root bone and clearing parents it still does this. Does anyone have ideas?

DOWNLOAD THE .BLEND FILE: Steve New.blend (1.04 MB)

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I cant quite work out how you broke it… Do you have a version that you saved BEFORE you trashed it? :smiley:

there’s a cyclic error somewhere, which explains all the funky movements… kinda like… something parented to its own parent…

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I figured it out. when I tried to parent everything it un-parented the arm and leg bones from each other. One more question though… If I move the arm IK too far up it gets really messed up. Any way around this (I want to make a swimming animation and I can’t do it because of this problem)?