Any means to render armatures/bones? (other than viewport render)

posted to: 06 Bone Tools

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.

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  • Wayne Dixon replied
    Solution

    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)
    a_20241031125409.png


    Mind you, it doesn't render everything you see in the viewport, but it does render most things (all be design)

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  • Motionbones replied

    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!

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  • Dwayne Savage(dillenbata3) replied
    Solution

    Yes. Thru the n-panel, view tab you can set the 3D cursor's location and rotation. 

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    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:

    BoneRender.png

    Alternatively, you can Install the UI Animation Render Addon (Get Extensions), which Renders the whole UI as you see it:

    Horse.png

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  • Motionbones replied

    Now that's some out-of-the-box thinking! Thanks.

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  • Nathi Tappan(nathitappan) replied

    Nice tip Martin! I didn't know about this extension! Bookmarking it for future reference, thanks!

    ps1. Oops. Turns out I don't know how to bookmark questions. Am I missing something? I can also just make a note on the lesson 🤔

    ps2. Dang it! I forgot how to make notes. I remember Wes mentioned it once... could you guys remind me, please? Sorry... I'm oh-for-two today.

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  • Dwayne Savage(dillenbata3) replied

    At the top above where the video plays in a course is the save and notes button. As for book marking a comment, I don't know how to do that. 

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  • Nathi Tappan(nathitappan) replied

    That's what I thought! But I don't see it. Weird 🤔 Thanks Dwayne!

    It does show on my mobile screen though. Just a note for the CGC crew then... Chrome has one less button! That's probably why it too me so long to learn about taking notes straight on the videos lol.

    Screenshot showing no notes button on Google Chrome browser.

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  • Dwayne Savage(dillenbata3) replied

    Weird? Yeah my only interest connection is thru my phone. I'm hoping to change that soon.