Shoe height elevation

I rigged all my characters with AUTO RIG PRO. You can see the rig is different from rigify.

The characters have different elevation of the shoes (no shoes, boots, high heels etc).

I would like to attach and remove the shoes with the rig of the character and animate them.
I don’t want to MAKE SEPARATE ANIMATIONS WITH DIFFERENT SHOES.

The concert is like how they doing video games where you can customize your character and give them different clothes and SHOES⬇️

How do I achieve this?

Welcome :slight_smile: it’s quite simple- just rig and bind all the shoes at once, then show and hide the appropriate shoe. We have a project at work where we have a character with many costumes and we did exactly this, with ARP, rigged all the costumes and the character at once. Worked perfectly

The animation action is stored on the rig. Which shoes are currently visible is an entirely separate concern. You’ll only have one animation for all your shoes

How?
There is REST POSITION and POSE POSITION.
You can only set one Pose in pose position.

How can you do what you’re explaining.

Ok, you need to learn how animation works in Blender before I can explain, as you’re many steps behind the starting step of the process. Look up some animation tutorials on YouTube

Humor me anyway.
I have rigged my character (over 250 + characters with auto rig Pro)
I have done some walk cycles. I know enough about animations then you think, I’m just stuck on this one part.

If you got discord, you will see what I’m talking about.

An animation is composed of many poses. You can set an infinite number of poses in pose mode.

To your question- rig all the shoes at the same time. Select your character, all the shoes, and click Bind in Auto Rig Pro. Animate- once, on the rig, which will animate all the shoes. Hide the shoes you don’t need

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I see. Thank you for the advice. Are you on discord?

I hate to keep asking but is it possible to show pictures on how you do that (step-by-step) because I don’t understand how that process works because you can only BIND the rig to a character, not the character and the shoes through the Auto-Rig Pro feature.

That’s why I asked if you had discord, just in case you couldn’t send videos and or pictures here.

That method didn’t work