How to move limbs independently from one another in animator

[rotund lichen]

i dont think ik works on r6 rigs, right?
Are there any other tips on making it easier to animate like can i lock limbs in place or something like that?

For example an issue i run into often is that i want to rotate a character's torso, but doing so completely offsets the legs from standing firmly on the ground, and its hard to try and get them back into a straight position manually, is there anything that can help this process for posing and animating?

[errant gulch]

moon animator i think

i dont have it tho

i heard its the go-to for like every animation you goitta make

[rotund lichen]

is there a free one? i can only seem to find "moon animator 2" which is 30 dollars

[errant gulch]

dont think so

[rotund lichen]

aw man, yeah im not able to get that right now 😔

[rotund lichen]

also slightly separate question, is there a way to manually input the number that you transform a part of the rig by?

[errant gulch]

open the anim editor

go to the limb u wanna change

and change the coordinate there

[rotund lichen]

could you be slightly more specific?

(not intending to come off as rude im just not sure what you mean by "there" exactly)

i am in the animation editor and i have the limb selected

oh also! Is there a way to be able to select the origin point of rotation when rotating objects?

like if i want to move the leg from the foot up instead of the thigh down

[steel forge]

theres always the option to animate in blender

but idk if you wanna learn allat

[errant gulch]

in the editor

should be a limb on the left

[rotund lichen]

i could, i have used blender before but id prefer doing it in roblox studio

(to be entirely honest i just dont enjoy working in blender that much lol)

[steel forge]

cuz you dont know how to use it

[rotund lichen]

i do, i just dont find it that comfortable to work with

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[rotund lichen]

how do i turn off the automatic tweening?

[lone zephyr]

in the animation editor, change the style to constant (it might not be constant but its one of the styles)

[rotund lichen]

man this is kind of confusing because instead of maintaining the pose until a different frame plays it immediately switches to the next frame's pose the moment you go past the previous frame

like it behaves the opposite way that most animation programs work..

[rotund lichen]

the way this works makes me have to do really weird convoluted stuff with the keyframes-.. like that should only need like 3 keyframes ends up taking like 5..

i wonder if itd be better to use the curve editor

is there not some sort of plugin thatd simply allow for moving the torso without affecting the limbs?? thatd be extremely helpful..

is there not just a way to disconnect everything from one another completely? (like all the 6 different limbs on the rig) So i can just manually select what i want to move together or independently

[rotund lichen]

(i figured it out lol https://discordapp.com/channels/448986884497211392/1459399861064433811/1459404153859211284)

[rotund lichen]

bumping this though, since the main question of this post still hasnt been answered

How to move limbs independently from one another in animator

[rotund lichen]

ive been reading about copying over the original positions of the limbs but im not quite sure how exactly youre supposed to do that? Since if you just copy the position of the limbs it will still rotate them towards the orientation of the torso (effectively changing nothing)

[sly raptor]

Change the pivot of the object in the model tab

[sly raptor]

I think you can just delete the welds in the rig

[rotund lichen]

sorry for having to ask, how do i do this?

by welds do you mean these?

or something else

oh i see! thank you

it doesnt seem to let me move the body parts anymore after doing this though>

wait where did your message go?

[sly raptor]

nvm you can't because then you can't move the other limbs

You could re-rig the model

ok I found that if you re rig the model then you can do it. You gotta rig everything to the humanoid root part

Basically here is a tutorial(I deleted the joints with delete)

[rotund lichen]

wow thank you very much for this!!! 🙏 I will give it a try!!

[rotund lichen]

would you be able to give me a link for the plugin you used?

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/problems-with-custom-r6-rig-using-edit-rig-plugin/3904278
i also found this and im a little concerned whether i would have to worry about this

i am still considering simply using the method of copy pasting the previous positions of the body parts after moving the torso but i still dont understand how to do that since copypasting just the keyframe for it still orients the limbs's positon to the torso

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[sly raptor]

I think they just messed up