• Thanh Tan Vo Van

  over 4 years ago

  My main criticism with this add-on is that the bone naming conventions the auto-generated rig comes with can be particularly confusing and frustrating to work with, especially if you tend to sort your Vertex Groups by name often like I do and/or need to find the proper bone to re-parent something to.

  For example, a series of bones for the fingers would go like this inside Auto-Rig:

  thumb1.l (Deformable)
  thumb2.l (Non-deformable)
  thumb3.l (Non-deformable)
  c_thumb1.l (Non-deformable)
  c_thumb2.l (Deformable)
  c_thumb3.l (Deformable)

  What this means is that the vertex groups you'll work with during weight-painting won't have something intuitive like:

  thumb1.l
  thumb2.l
  thumb3.l

  but rather something like this:
  thumb1.l
  c_thumb2.l
  c_thumb3.l

  This tends to make sorting alphabetically an equally messy affair.

  Another example of un-intuitiveness is for example in the twisting part of the upper arm. While the legs and forearm use something like "X_stretch" and "X_twist" naming conventions, the arm uses "arm_stretch" but actually makes the "arm_twist" a non-deformable bone, and gives that role to some other oddly-named "c_arm_twist_offset" control bone. So if there are any methods for changing the default auto-generated bone names and if they do deform or not, I'd be really interested in knowing about them, because some of the default settings are just silly.

  Besides that, I'd say this add-on is worth every cent and is a must if you're an animator/rigger that's using Blender, but also work a lot with imported/exported models. This add-on will save you massive quantities of time in that department for sure, even with its rough edges.

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  Artell

  over 4 years ago

  Thanks for the review, you have definitely spotted interesting inconsistencies that should be worked on later. The difficulty is to keep the updates backward-compatible with characters that are already rigged. I'll see what I can do.
• Mario

  over 4 years ago

  Useful addon that reduces stress on rigging 3D models with controller on it. He also update it.

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  Artell

  over 4 years ago

  Thanks for the feedback Mario, much appreciated.
• Bryan

  over 4 years ago

  As a game developer new to rigging, this plugin has helped speed up my process and provided me with foundational knowledge on how a humanoid armature should be structured. Some elements of rigging such as weight painting can seem daunting for newcomers even with documentation, but the developer has been very patient in providing support from simple to more advanced issues. Would definitely recommend this plugin!

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  Artell

  over 4 years ago

  Thanks for letting this rating Bryan!
• momotaro

  over 4 years ago

  Very useful Addon!
  Thanks for developing it!

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  Artell

  over 4 years ago

  Thanks a alot!
• Leric

  over 4 years ago

  Finger recognition often fails.
  Today I used a standard Apose character model with beautiful standard hanads which couldn't be more standard.
  However, no matter how I adjust the parameters, finger recognition is always wrong.
  And once there is a pop-up message showsthat it does not recognize the finger, no matter how you undo and change the parameters , you will never be able to recognize the finger again.
  I suspect this may be some stack bug in the program.
  This problem has existed for at least half a year, and it still exists today.

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  Artell

  over 4 years ago

  Thanks for reporting the issue. I confirm it, there were bugs with recent Blender versions. Depending on the hand mesh, fingers detection could fail or lead to poor results. This was related to mesh data updates and auto-merging of vertices. It has just been fixed in the 3.56 version.
  Please report bugs, critical ones such as this one are fixed as quickly as possible.
• Robert Dowling

  over 4 years ago

  Auto-Rig Pro sucks, don't use it.

  Ugh, OK it's pretty awesome, I just don't like to share.

  I've happily converted old Rigify characters over to it, and have successfully exported animations over to Unity using it, without having to write my own scripts to optimize.

  I've grabbed Mixamo rigged characters from clients and discarded that shizzle without a second thought and replacing with Auto-Rig Pro.

  It's now part of my stable workflow.

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  Artell

  over 4 years ago

  Thanks!
• ChadleyGunderCrunch

  over 4 years ago

  Life saver! Easy to use, and results are phenomenal.

• 

  Artell

  over 4 years ago

  Thanks!
• Kihun Chu

  over 4 years ago

  Where is version 3.41 for Blender 2.9 ??

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  Artell

  over 4 years ago

  Older versions are not available for download, however I can send it your way. Please write a support message.
  Thanks!
• yigitayyildiz

  over 4 years ago

  Awesome!

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  Artell

  over 4 years ago

  Thanks!
• JasboJones

  over 4 years ago

  I usually build product shots or sets for comping into photography or for short animations, but not characters or rigging. Most of the other great add-ons I use essentially save me time, but this one has opened up new possibilities for me. Quickly and easily.
  Bravo I say, bravo!
  (currently using Blender 2.90)

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  Artell

  over 4 years ago

  Thanks Jasbo! Happy blending!

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