Offset bone tool?

[synthsin75]

Hey I was wondering if anyone knew what I should look for if I wanted to get rid of the bone region indicators when using the bone offset tool. They are annoying and I've no idea why that tool needs them.

[heyvern]

There are some things drawn on screen that are "built in" to the application so there is no way to "hide' or change them with the scripted tools.

Bone strength, bones, vectors, points, etc. None of those things can be changed except the color in the preferences.

I wish there was a way to "turn off' things like that. For instance the highlighting of constrained bones in not accessible through scripting.

This is one area I would REALLY like to see opened up to scripting.

There is a simple "trick" I use sometimes that helps a tiny bit to cut down on the clutter of the bone strength bubbles. Go into preferences under the "Editor colors" tab and set the "Object color" (dark green) to a more neutral light gray. This sort of blends it out a little. It depends on what your project file looks like, your background and other layers inside the bone layer. You can change the "Selection" (red) color too if needed.

It's easy to set it back to normal by just clicking the reset button.

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If I ever get my "Bone Groups" tool set completely bug proof and fixed, it will let you turn off the bone strength "bubble". Basically you turn off construction curves completely and my tool draws new bone shapes. It's still buggy as heck. I use it all the time but it has some funky issues the "normal" user shouldn't have to deal with... I'm a bit odd.

-vern

[synthsin75]

Thanks for letting me know. I seached the script for a reference, now I know why I didn't find one.