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How do you add mesh 2 to armature?
Take Mesh 2 and bring it under the armature of Mesh 1. Now inside of the properties menu for Mesh 2 find the Modifier tab. Under Object set it to the correct Armature. Then under Vertex Group and select which bone Mesh 2 should be attached to. What did the trick for me with two already rigged meshes was the following (v 2.90):
How to join two armatures in Blender Stack Exchange?
Select the objects you want to join clicking them under the rig (holding shift/cmd etc.), not the originals you see at the bottom of the picture. Watch out though that both objects don’t have the same mesh group names as this will break rigging for them.
What happens if you remove parent link from mesh?
Alt + P on your mesh. if you remove parent link then i think you’ll have to redo all the vertex group you better keep it as is and change your vertex weight or group ! looks at CGcookie ” Alien” tut for a better idea on this subject
What happens when you parent a mesh to an armature?
Much help would be appreciated, AndyB :O) To answer what is happening for you, when you parent the mesh object to the other armature, you change the parent. The mesh object can only be a child of one parent, so it is replaced. The heat weighting/skinning should remain intact though… however …
Is there a way to combine all leg armatures?
Select all the leg armatures, in Object mode. Go to the Object menu, >> Join (or Ctrl + J). That said, I hope you didn’t weight paint anything yet, because if so, you may have to rename some of your bones’ VGs. You can combine the bones into a single armature using the method Mike outlined.
What happens when you merge two armatures in Blender?
When you merge two meshes, all vertices retain their weights, but if some vertex groups have the same name, some will be renamed with the “.001” suffix, and they will stop to be influenced by the bone. The same can happen if you join two armatures which have some bones with the same name.
Can a character be made of multiple meshes?
If your character is made of multiple meshes, that’s fine, it just means you have to parent each object to the armature individually – but you’re using the same armature!
Can you use more than one armature in Suzanne?
Aside from using a second armature as a control rig to directly drive the bones in the first armature (which is not common), or using ‘mesh constrained controls’ as presented in the suzanne rig I attached, I am not aware of any other valid reason to ever use more than 1 armature.
How to transfer a bone from one armature to another?
How do you transfer a bone from one armature to another? Select (use shift to select multiple) the armatures in Object Mode and hit ctrl-j, enter to join the armatures. The last selected armature is considered active (same concept works generally for objects) and previously selected ones are merged to it.
Can a mesh be both parent and child?
Thanks! Select the armature, you can see that you’ve parented it to the mesh, an object can’t be both parent and child of another object, so deactivate the parentage. Also you’ll need to remove doubles in your mesh, otherwise you won’t be able to parent it.