simplsam/moho-make-bones

Moho Tool to Split, Duplicate and Bend bones.

moho-make-bones

Make Bones is a Moho tool to split, clone and reform Moho Bones. To use - Select one or more Bones (normally one), then Activate and configure the tool. By default the tool will divide the length of the selected Bone into a {number of pieces} of equal lengths, parent the new bones to each other in a chain and re-assign prior child bones to the last bone in the newly created set.

Version

• version: 001.0 #510828 AS11-MH13.5+ -- by Sam Cogheil (SimplSam)
• release: 1.00

How do I get set up ?

• To install:

  • Download latest release: ss_make_bones.zip
  • Save the 'ss_make_bones.lua' and 'ss_make_bones.png' files to your computer into your <custom>/scripts/tool folder
  • Reload Moho/AnimeStudio scripts (or Restart Moho)

• To use:

  • Select a bone layer, and one or more bones
  • Run the tool from the Tools palette
  • A popup panel will appear allowing you to review and adjust the settings

• Notes:

  • The tool is primarily intended to be used at rigging & design time, but should cope with some limited pre-existing animation (reparenting and repositioning) if those elements of the selected bone and/or children have already been keyframed.

Demo

Options & Features

• Set the No. of Pieces # that the selected bone should be broken into (or # clones)
• Use Parental Link to form a Parent-Child relationship with newly created bones
  • Chained: New bones are parentally linked back to the base bone
  • Shared: New bones share the same parent as the base bone (or none if base bone has none)
• Disable Parental Link to create the new bones with no parenting
• Rescale the selected Bone based on No. of Pieces, with a default simple Linear scale relation of 1/#
  • Use Weighted Bones to gradually reduce the new Bone sizes based on Fibonacci sequencing - where the length of the Parent is equal to the length of the Child + Grandchild … i.e. (8, 5, 3) or (89, 55, 34, 21)
  • Use Scale Strength to scale Bone strength in proportion to Bone size
• Disable Rescale to clone/duplicate the selected bone at full size # times
• Use Angular Offset to create curly wurly bones, or bones set at an angle (if not Chained in a Parental Link)
  • Use ReAngle First Bone - if you also want the base bone to have an angular offset
• Use Reset to restore default settings. OK to Apply settings & changes. Cancel to Cancel

 

• The color of the base bone will be copied to the new bones
• New bones are auto-named based the name of the base bone (MH12+)
• Multiple selected bones will be processed in order
• The last used settings are automatically saved
• Compatible with AS11+
• Optimised for MH12+

* ‘base bone’ is the originally selected bone, which may itself be altered in size & rotation by the Split/Clone process  

SPECIAL THANKS to:

• Stan (and the team): MOHO Scripting -- https://mohoscripting.com
• The friendly faces @ Lost Marble Moho forum -- https://www.lostmarble.com/forum/