CloudRig
Rig Generation & Rigging Workflow Tools.
CloudRig is a rig generation add-on for Blender, developed by the Blender Studio for our Open Movies, starting with CoffeeRun in 2020.
CloudRig lets you save time by creating helper bones, constraints, and drivers for you, based on some basic inputs. These inputs are provided in the form of a simple armature, called a Metarig. You can learn more about this process on the wiki.
It also comes with some (optional) workflow enhancements, like various pie menus and improved operators.
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What's New
2.1.18 January 25th, 2025
Mostly fixes to issues reported by users.
- Snapping operators should now insert a keyframe when that is needed to preserve transforms, even without the Bake option enabled.
- Add new post-gen functions by @tone-watson
- UI Editor's "Batch Add" option will now skip over properties that won't be drawn properly anyways, such as add-on defined data like Python dictionaries and lists.
- UI Editor now warns better when entering a full data path to a property into the "Property Owner" field.
- Fix an issue with IK parent switching where the pole target didn't stay in place after the switch.
- Fix add-on hotkeys not drawing in the sidebar Hotkeys panel after a rig generation.
- Fix hotkey preferences for the Shift+M bone collection pop-up UI and the Quick Select pop-up menu (Shift+Alt+W) not being preserved. Now they will be, but only when the add-on is enabled. Without the add-on enabled, these hotkeys are still available and customizable for animators, but customizations will not be saved when restarting Blender.
- Fix Symmetrize operator not mirroring bone names (This was due to a fix in Blender to an issue I reported, funnily enough!)
- Fix Bone Tweak not working with parent switch helper bones.
- Fix UI Editor not supporting non-custom properties.
- Fix Datablock Pointer custom properties not propagating to the generated rig.
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