Curious if I can render armatures/bones with Workbench/Eevee/Cycles - I haven't been able to & curious if it's something obvious I'm missing.
Hi Motion Bones (cool name btw)
Armatures are invisible in a 'real' render (ie - when you hit F12 with cycles or Evee)
But they are visible when you render the viewport.
View> Viewport Render Image
or
View > Viewport Render Animation
The next option will work too, but it's really for only rendering the stepped blocking of your animation w/o changing all the curves. (it's an animation thing)
Mind you, it doesn't render everything you see in the viewport, but it does render most things (all be design)
Thanks for the reply Wayne!
Ah... that's a shame.... this will seriously affect the "presentation" of my armature creature creations as tasked by your video - lol.
Quick follow up question while I have your attention please:
Am I able to "move" the 3d cursor... like transforming any other objects or their pivots etc? (as opposed to clicking to where I want it in 3d space and having it appear/jump there)
Cheers for all your help & guidance!
Yes. Thru the n-panel, view tab you can set the 3D cursor's location and rotation.
Hi MMotionbones ,
If you really want to go super fancy, you can go advanced and model a Bone shape as a Mesh and then use the Custom Shape Option to display the Bone as that Mesh and then you can fully Render your Bones with Materials in Cycles or EEVEE:
Alternatively, you can Install the UI Animation Render Addon (Get Extensions), which Renders the whole UI as you see it:
