🦴 RootMaker

A simple addon to create a root bone and bake it into your already existing animations (or just bake if you already have a root bone)

Don't want the entire addon just the code?
Take a look inside root_maker_utils.py

🛠️ How to install?

1. Download this repo as .zip file (you can delete /images folder)
2. Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Add-ons -> Install from Disk and select the .zip file (make sure it's enabled once installed)
3. If it has been successfully installed you should see it on the side panel as such:

💡 How to use?

Here's what all the different properties do:

1. Target Armature: Select within it whichever armature you'd like to modify

2. Root Bone Name: By what name should the new root bone be created / Name of bone to use while baking into actions

3. Root Bone Length: Length of the root bone to that is to be created

4. Bake Postfix: What postifx to give to the name of the newly baked action (Note: If empty then original action is overwritten)

5. Bake Mode:
   a. Keep at Armature Origin: The root bone is fixed at the armature origin b. Keep on Ground: The root bone moves along with animation but always stays on ground c. Allow Offset in Air: Allows root bone to move up into the air but always maintains the offset & doesn't allow going below ground (offset is the distance between follow bone and root bone in edit mode)

6. Follow Bone: Which bone should root bone follow when Keep on Ground or Allow Offset in Air is selected

7. Actions to Affect: This holds the list of actions you would like to bake (Use the +- buttons on the side to add/remove actions)

8. Add All: Adds all existing actions into "Actions to Affect"

9. Remove All: Removes all actions from "Actions to Affect"

10. Bake Only Root Bone: Bakes only the root bone into the action while leaving everything else unchanged