Hidding Bones

Coldfusion · Post by **Coldfusion** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:40 pm

Hi
I found a trick to hide a bone that does not need to manipulate.
First in Anime Studio, I named the bone as "bone hidden".

Then I opened my file with extension ". amne" using jEdit and
find the line where the bone appears:
("bone hidden" 3 -1 1 -1 1 1 -1 1 false 0.96694 1 -1 false);
and I changed the fourth "parameter" to 0 (zero).

Before:("bone hidden" 3 -1 1 -1 1 1 -1 1 false 0.96694 1 -1 false);
After: ("bone hidden" 3 -1 1 0 1 1 -1 1 false 0.96694 1 -1 false);
Saved the file.

I opened the file again in Anime Studio and chose the menu:
Bone>> Hide Controlled Bones.

And though the bone is not "controlled" by another bone he was hidden.

If I want to manipulate it, simply uncheck the option: Hide Controlled Bones.

Maybe it's possible to create a script to do it automatically ... does anyone know how?
It would be great!

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:58 pm

It sounds very promising. I hope somebody could write a menu "hide selected bones" script.
Thanks for sharing.

Coldfusion · Post by **Coldfusion** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:53 pm

Yes, that would be cool! But until this is done...

Another simple way to hide the bones; You first create a bone (or use the first bone you create), and name it as "Master " Then select all the bones you want to hide. Then with the "Bone Constraints" button, and using "Position control bone:" choose the bone "Master" (mentioned before), and put the values 0 (zero) in the two boxes - this allows that the bones are free to be manipulated if I want to ... Then using the menu "Bone>> Hide controled Bone " - Hidding Bones!

That's it!

Defims · Post by **Defims** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:30 am

i just set the bone into length 0.000001,and it will appear as 0.00,and the bone will seem to be disppear~

but it still there ,and you can use the bone tools to get it back~