add bones to objects in blender, with auto weighting and parent finding, also you can manually select parent CURRENTLY ONLY PARENTS BY Y POSITION, AAAAAAAAA IM WORKING ON THE FOLLOW CURVE PART NOW Instructions for now
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Click on Scripting workspace tab (Top) > Text > New > paste bonify.py > press Play button |> bonify controls in Tool menu
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have an armature, click on 'Armature' in controls to select armature
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in object mode, select object, choose axes for parent searching, or select one in armature edit mode. add bone with weights
Hark-- Vertex Groups, Armature modifier, UNAPPLIED TRANSFORMS - I think this solves that for you, but if it is in wrong place try Ctrl+a > all transforms.
If your object is not moving by the bone in pose mode, you probably duplicated to get it, renaming it might solve this
if you get a Encoding error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x9f in position 2: invalid start byte or a Encoding error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: invalid continuation byte buy me dinner first because I fixed it. Open an issue if this occurs.
TODO if you pay me $Instancer
prevent duplicate bones
hotkey and better direction selection
group selection actions
selection macros
custom bone naming strategy (currently it just takes object name)
decide bone direction
add utf-8 errors back in