[2.8] Blender Tutorial: Mechanical Rigging Made Simple 

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You just saved me a bunch of time. Thank you!

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Thank you so much for the beautiful and elegant tutorial. I just purchased the Engine Files. Thanks!!

Thanks for this video! This has been the best example of how to rig and animate that I've found so far. For the first time I was able to rig and animate a model engine! I hope to use this for a locomotive model that I'm planning.

Thank you for showing this. I didn’t know that it was possible to animated mechanics with rigging.

Really great example of how to get started with this, thank you!

Thanks for this video! i had a specific problem with my hard surface modelling and this perfectly solved it

Awesome tutorial. I needed it. Thank you !!!!

Saved my lot of time!! Was looking how to make bone locked on one axis while translate. Thank you brother keep going!!

Great tutorial! I want to learn to use this technique to rig pneumatic pistons and other pieces that move realistically with robot joints.

This is awesome, thank you so much!

That great, i needed it, thanks for share!

Thx a lot, were struggling days with one amrmature and IK

Thank you, still works well in Blender 3.0

Merci pour cette belle démonstration ! Claude (France)

Thanks. I had no idea that mechanical animations should use bones too. I was trying to directly animate object positions.

Nice video.Thank you

Thanks this is great!

You tought me hoiw to rig things thank you

Thank you so much

nice tutorial~ :-)

Goddammnnittt thank you so much for this tutorial it took me an while to figure out how to use it in my project but it saved me a lot of trial and error.

Thanks for share, nice tutorial. Do you know how I can bake the animation to the first armature? I need to export to unity only one armature per mesh.

Спасибо :)

Please upload facial rigging tutorial also

It's interesting how the same thing can be done different ways. I built a piston style engine before and tonight I did it again just to be sure I still could. The first time I made it was about a year ago and it took me about an hour to just get the mechanics working correctly. Tonight I did so in just a few minutes. However, the part I find interesting is the different approach you and I took to solve the same mechanical problem. You did it with bones which is likely a more industry standard method. I did it with two rigid body constraints and three rigid body objects. I guess in some ways it's the same thing, just two different methods. I find that interesting.

Nice! How about a tutorial for a sandbeest leg next :P

Great tutorial... I must say. Thxn a lot!! U did not tell how u animated the two iron rods on other end of the engine.

At 2:55 you could have selected both faces on the axle and then moved the cursor to selected, this moved the 3d cursor exactly in the middle of the axis, allowing crisp and perfectly aligned bones. In fact, this is the only thing that you regretted to to, but it's not "important" but defitinly a good tip.

why are there two bones on the 2nd armature? couldnt it work with just one?

Are there more videos like this one? I'm just not able to understand bones and rigging in Blender.

Very nice tutorial, but I noticed that you created multiple armatures instead of one armature with all the bones in it. Can you explain when to decide whether to have one armature with all the bones or multiple armatures each with one or a few bones?

Must the bones be positioned inside meshes? or it does not matter?

I HAVE A DOUBT, HOW DO YOU BAKE IN BLENDER

Is it possible to export/import into Unreal engine with the animation?

Wow

Great simple n straight forward tutorial thanks. Any cloth or hair sim tutorials?

Why you choose 5000 degrees at 6:55? Is that number arbritrary?

It disturbs me to not see a top view. To me it seems as the bones are not in a straight line. Is that not necessary?

locking the IK breaks the animation .... how would you expect to rotate the rig if the axis are locked UPDATE: adding a master object for which all is parented to for translation and rotation will fix the issue i had (this needs to be disclosed in these videos so others dont get confused)

can you make a tutorial how to make the mechanical please

3rd (maybe)

Why do u need two armatures?

I find this quite confusing. It doesn't help me a lot. I have a general idea now how constraints might work, but that chitchat of "the second bone from the first armature", "the first bone of the third armature" rather than giving them straight names, quite confusing; I permanently lose track of what you're doing.

There's something broken with my page. When I give my second thumbs-up for the video, my first thumb is somehow getting removed. How can I give the 3 thumbs-up that this video deserves (with one RU-vid account)?? ;-p

I accidentally hit my funny bone

666 likes nice.

this is not a tutorial you're just narrating what you're doing without any explanation as to why you're doing it

"press E and then R and then...." do not explain anything that you do.

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Far too much time wasted showing how to move bones, far to little time and completely convoluted explanations of the actual setting up of the physics, have had to watch dozens of times and still cannot follow physics, menu's on blender different from what is in video and no clue as to why because zero explanation of physics in this video. try leaning how to explain things perhaps.