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Add-on CloudRig
CloudRig

Rig Generation & Rigging Workflow Tools.
Add-on by Blender Studio
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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.

If you enjoy CloudRig, consider supporting the Blender Studio, and give a rating!

What's New

2.1.11 September 4th, 2024

Fix bugs reported by users over past 3 weeks:

  • Fix hotkey customization lost on restart. They're now saved and loaded to/from disk, along with some other preferences, so they're preserved when disabling CloudRig.
  • Fix potential error in bone set drawing UI.
  • Fix error when a metarig has Actions but no child meshes, which was causing Sintel metarig to fail to generate.
  • Add a helpful error message when a parent bone of a component isn't part of a component itself. This isn't supported right now, but it wasn't raising an error, causing a cascade of unhelpful errors down the line.
  • Disable re-do panel for the Generate operator, because it just crashes Blender. Proper fix may or may not come in future.

Thanks to everyone for reporting bugs!

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Permissions

This extension requests the following permissions:

  • Files

    Load widgets/metarigs/preferences from disk

  • Clipboard

    Copy/paste Bone Collections between armatures

Activity

  • Ready for review

  • Will iterate on this with Met tomorrow.

  • I think the only thing we wanted to change was the logo and banner, which is done now, so putting this back in review queue.

  • Hey Demeter, thanks for submitting it.

    • Why does cloudrig require clipboard? Could you add this information to the extension description?
    • The LICENSE you have in the .zip is "GNU-GPL 3", yet in the manifest you have "GNU GPL 2 or later", pick one :)
    • While at that you can remove the commented out # blender_version_max = "5.1.0" from it. You can always set the blender max version later via the website.

  • Thanks for the review! All should be addressed.

  • @Sunova no need to mention that you are not an official reviewer by the way. Everyone from the moderation team gets a little "shield". So the fact that you don't have you is informing this already.

    And thanks for helping with the reviews :)

  • Updated to latest manifest format, thanks for the example.

    I don't see a shield icon next to anybody! Currently on Brave browser on a Windows PC, but I don't recall seeing one on Firefox in the office either.

  • Hey everyone,

    Just a heads-up about a recent change regarding the licensing of add-ons on the Blender extension platform. Moving forward, all add-ons will need to be released under the GNU/GPL 3.0 license (SPDX:GPL-3.0-or-later). This is mainly to keep things simple and consistent across the board.

    Previously, we accepted various licenses as long as they were compatible with Blender’s distribution. However, to avoid any confusion and streamline the process, all add-ons using the bpy API should now be presented as GPL 3 (the same license the Blender bundle is distributed). Regardless of whether the original code was under GPL 2, or something else like MIT or ZLIB.

    Existing add-ons versions won't be affected. However, new updates will need to comply to the revised requirements.

    Thanks for understanding, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

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