SmartlyDressedGames / Blender-Space-Switching

Add-on for Blender
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Blender Space Switching Add-on

Not perfect, but potentially useful for some people.

Example / Demo View

Installation

  1. Download the newest space_switching.zip from https://github.com/SmartlyDressedGames/Blender-Space-Switching/releases
  2. In Blender navgiate to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Install...
  3. Select the zip to install

History

This add-on is based upon some of the lessons from Richard Lico's Space Switching Course. In late 2020 I made a personal add-on to automate these techniques in Blender, but it assumed the armatures were local to the file so only useful for scripted rigs. Pierrick Picaut's video does a better job explaining the technique in Blender than I could, but it is a hassle to constantly change between Pose Mode and Object Mode. Bare minimum this add-on makes that manual approach easier by allowing "Empty"-esque bones to be created in Pose Mode.

Flaws

Copying bones into a new space hides the source bone until the changes are cancelled or applied. Unfortunately the source bone visibility property is not eligible for undo when working with proxy/library bones however, so Ctrl+Z undo will not restore the visibiliy in that case. Using the "Delete Bone" operator to undo is a workaround, or creating a local copy of the proxy/library armature with the "Make Local Armature" operator.