Is There a Way to use the Scene Camera to Render Both a Model's Mesh and it's Armature in an Animation Render?

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I’m currently working on a tutorial and I’ve currently animated the scene camera to zoom in and out on 2 models in the scene in a compassion type manner.
I’m trying to capture the elements of both models with the armature in X-ray mode through the meshes. Of course the scene camera doesn’t capture the armature when rendering an animation. But, I’m wondering if there is a way to make it capture the armature via a setting somewhere?
I could use Camtasia to do this by wrapping the Camtasia screen recorder around the Blender camera, but I’m trying to keep this tutorial as Blender native as I can.

Thanks…

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Render -> opengl render animation will capture what you’re viewing in the viewport.

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Thanks JA12,

Hmmm, Not seeing a setting that allows me to set this to Opengl rendering in the Render Control Panel. Nor do I see such a setting going through Userpref.

Pressing Space and typing Render then selecting the openGL renderer is producing the same result (no bones/armature seen in render.)

I’m definitely doing something wrong here.

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One option is to rebuild the armature as actual geometry, attached to the bones directly.

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That option is on the header of the 3d view.

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Render menu, at the top