In the video, you parent the CTRL.MCH_Widget bone to DEF.Arm_2, but when I do it on my rig, it creates a dependency. No matter what I do (removing constrants, using contraints [like copy location/rotation on an 'agent' bone], reparenting, creating a new dedicated tracking bone then coping its transforms, ect), it still creates a dependency.
What am I doing wrong?
Also, how in your example, how does parenting the CTRL.MCH_Widget with the DEF.ARM_2 bone not create a dependency?
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1. In pose mode, Remove or disable all constraints
2. In edit mode, select all bones and remove parenting(Alt+P).
3. Select Close, shift+select DEF-Base, shift+select DEF-Base_spin. Then shift+select Root bone last. Then Parent with offset all of these(Ctrl+P)
4. Select DEF-Arm_01, shift+select DEF-Base_spin and parent offset.
5. Select DEF-Arm_02, shift+select DEF-Arm_01 and parent connected.
6. Select DEF-Clamp_02.L, shift+select Clamp_02.L and parent offset.
7. Select DEF-Clamp_01.L, shift+select Clamp_01.L and parent offset.
8. select Close, shift+select Clamp_01.L, shift+select MCH-Control_Widget and parent offset.
9. Select all .L(Select menu->pattern-> Type "*.L" without the quotes and press enter.). Right click->Symmetrize.
Thank you guys so much, your help worked! I turns out that I parented the MCH-CRTL_Widget bone to the DEF-Arm_02 bone instead of the CRTL to the DArm02 bone.
