Shadow Rig Support¶

To Use Shadow Rig Features, you need to turn it on In Preferences

After Enable, You can Access to the Shadow Rig Subpanel, this panel will only be available if your object is an Armature Object

Getting Started¶

When you first open this Panel, you will need to select Your Control Rig or Shadow Shadow Rig

If you are on Control Rig, You need to Fill in the Shadow Rig

If you are on Shadow Rig, You need to Fill in the Control Rig

The Addon will automatically populate the corresponding Armature

Shadow Rig Tab¶

The Tabs here show you which Rig Are you On, The Image Above display how it would look like if you are on Shadow Rig

The Tabs here show you which Rig Are you On, The Image Above display how it would look like if you are on Control Rig

In here, you have a few option,

You can Click Control Rig / Shadow Rig to select the corresponding rig

Constraint Toggle¶

Connected / Disconnect Button indicates that constraint status on the Shadow Rig
Connected Means All Constraint in the Shadow Rig Are On
Disconnect Means All Constraint in the Shadow Rig Are Off
Clicking it will toggle the Constraint in the Armature
If only Some Constraint in the Shadow Rig Are On, a Partial Connection Message will appear, Clicking the Connect / Disconnect Button will fix this
Next You have a Object and Bone Icon

Bake Shadow Rig (Experimental)¶

Bake the Selected Actions into the Shadow Rig

Options¶

Prefix / Suffix / Replace¶

This is your Renaming options on the Baked Actions

Replace If Exist¶

Replace the Action if an Existing Action with the same name as the Baked Action is Found

Push To NLA¶

Push the Action to the Shadow Rig Armature After Bake

NLA Operation¶

How to Deal with Existing NLA Tracks

Skip Push If Exist: Will Skip Pushing Onto the NLA Tracks if the Baked Action is Already in the NLA Tracks
Clear All NLA Tracks: Will Clear All NLA Tracks Before Pushing into the Tracks, Ensuring a Clean NLA Tracks
None: Just Push to NLA Without Question

Load Baked to Shadow Rig¶

Load the Baked Actions to Shadow Rig’s Action List After Baking

Preclear Slot¶

Clear the Action List of the Shadow Rig Before Baking

Bake Settings¶

Standard Baking Settings you find in Vanilla Blender Bake Operator

The Default are pretty sane to use

Bake And Export Shadow Rig (Experimental)¶

This Operator Will Bake the Actions and Proceed to Export it to FBX in one Swoop, and then remove the baked actions

The Exported actions will use the same name in the action it baked from, so you do not need to do a batch rename

This Button is Only Available on Control Rig, and it will export the Shadow Rig

With This Operator, You Do not need to manually Bake Your Actions

Options¶

Export To¶

Single FBX - Export the Selected Actions into One Single FBX File

Multiple FBX - Export the Selected Actions into a FBX File for Action Action

Action List¶

The List of Action to be Exported, this is taken directly from your control rig’s action list

Bake Settings¶

Standard Bake Settings in Blender, The Default Should Work Fine

FBX Export Settings¶

All of the Options Are Passthrough to the Default Export FBX in Blender

The Only Exception is the Export Mesh Options

Export Mesh¶

None - Do Not Export Your Mesh (Internally Will Export an Empty Mesh Object To Make Ensure the Animation the Correct Rest Pose)

Selected - Export your Rig Alongside Selected Objects

Auto Find Mesh (Recommended) - This Operator will loop through your scene and find objects with a Modifider that points to your Shadow Rig