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All right.



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All right.



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We are going to look at the shape key drivers in this video and how to use them.



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What in the world are shape key drivers.



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Well if I hit of age to get our armature back shape key drivers are gonna allow for us to basically



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use these shaped keys but instead of having to move this value here we're going to be able to use it



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with a bone.



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That way we can animate our whole character.



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The body part of it and the facial structure and the facial emotions with just bones.



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So the way we're going to do this is first let's go ahead and hit tab to go into edit mode of our bones



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and then selecting this line bone right here shifted to copy it are to rotate x 90 degrees.



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Let's scale this puppy down.



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Put it in front of his eyebrow as we will be doing the eyebrows first and bring it out to the front



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of his head.



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Now these aren't going to actually be deforming the mesh itself but there are going to be use to drive



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the shape keys that we created earlier.



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Now I'm going to go ahead and rename this bone to I.



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Let me see how I named these.



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All right so capital and non-capital want to keep the names consistent.



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All right.



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Eye brow dot L.



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underscore got L and now going to my character.



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I'm going to go to the object data and under the shape keys I'm going to find eyebrowed dot l just right



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here.



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I'm now going to right click on the value here if I right click here I get some different options but



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if I right click on the value there's an option that says add driver and now you can see that become



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purple.



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So now a couple more things that we need to do to put in that driver.



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First I'm going to hit t to close that up.



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And then over here with our second window let's go to the graph editor and we are going to change it



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from F curve which is what we used for our ball animation to the drivers.



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And here you can see that we have a key and it says eyebrowed L.



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So select this and then hit the end key to bring up the properties panel and then just a couple values



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that we need change here.



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And it can be overwhelming with all these options here but just a couple of things that we need to do



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to make it work.



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First is we need a change from scripted expression to averaged value.



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And also I believe here when it changes the driver out note you could still move the value here.



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I had assumed that you couldn't.



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But either way we're not going to be using this value any more.



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Here we're going to be using the bone.



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Anyways back to here.



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Let's put it on average value.



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We're going to change it to armature and then that bone will of course be eye brow dot L it's going



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to be a Z location because we're going to be moving it up and down and the space is going to be local's



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space.



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All right.



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Everything else is fine and dandy if I grab my bone now and hit G to grab it.



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You can see that if I grab it it moves the eyebrow up and down.



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Awesome.



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Except it's going in the wrong direction.



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When I go up it's going down and vice versa.



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The reason for that is if we turn on axes we can see that the Z-axis is pointed down.



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So to fix this had tabbed to go into edit mode control and and recalculate the roll with the Global's



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the Axis up go back into pose mode and turn this off.



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And now we can see that it's working nicely.



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Awesome.



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Now let's do a couple of tweaks to make this much more user friendly.



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So right now you could kind of bring it everywhere.



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Let's first hit the end key.



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Let's go ahead and lock in the Y and X location so that we can only move it up and down.



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And now we're going to add in a constraint.



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And the constraint is going to be limit location on the z axis on the local space.



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And let's go ahead and put this to one and this one negative one.



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Actually it's the other way around negative one here and one right here because as you can see right



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here says lowest z value to allow.



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So now if I bring it Boem look at that awesome that is perfect.



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So now we have one bone for the eyebrow.



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And by moving this is actually animating the value right here.



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Except we don't have to go in here.



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We can do everything from our bones now and use it that way.



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Now you could see that right here when I rotate this.



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This one isn't following along.



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So hitting tabs you go into edit mode.



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It's like this one shift right click this one control P and keep the offset we go cool so we can rotate



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it and then move his eyebrow a ladies.



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All right enough.



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Let's go on to the next eyebrow we got quite a bit of these to do so to save us some time.



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Let's select this one tab to go into hiding mode shift the X to copy it.



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That way we don't have to copy all the constraints that we had on this.



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Let's remember though to eyebrow dots are.



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And of course we can do the whole flip name thing but whatever.



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So now selecting our character let's go and to the driver place we're going to click eyebrowed dot are



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we're going to like add driver on that something eyebrowed are let's just do the same thing change it



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average value armature bone is going to be eyebrowed that are see location local space and believe that's



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see why is the swan



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not acting up as I want it to.



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Strange.



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Let me see.



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Well that's strange.



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All I had to do.



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I don't know why I guess it was a glitch.



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I just had to re select average value even though it was already selected and it seemed to work fine



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now.



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All right cool so now we got both eyebrows a.



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So we got our mushroom eyebrows there done and done.



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All right now let's go for the Junior brow or the middlebrow selecting one of these shifty acts.



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Let's move it to the middle name this middle underscore borowe like our mushroom right click add driver.



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And once again middlebrow



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average value armature see location.



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Let's see middlebrow which would be under an hour.



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If I remember my alphabet correctly and then I guess right here a few Slyke average value before hand



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it kind of has an error see at the just Resul like that.



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Don't ask me why and now we got the eyebrow and once again it's going in the wrong direction so let's



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hit tab control then global z axis.



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And apparently this one we need to control and put it on the or is it global negative Z-axis so that



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works.



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All right so now we got all three of these pretty cool mushroom is coming along nicely.



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All right.



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Now let's go ahead and do the ice.



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We're going to do the same thing but to save a little bit of time on having to swap back and forth between



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these Let's just go to the I am going to add a driver to all of these all four of these so that we got



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all four of them and being tabbed to go into edit mode I'm going to shift the Z ring that down rename



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it.



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This is going to be right on your skin to be repetitive here so I wait.



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I lid.



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I was going to name the eyebrow I lived life I life I lead top dots fell I'm going to hit ship the Z



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I led underscored top dot.



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Sorry bottom that Al that's going take even more time Alex if you name everything wrong.



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I'm sorry.



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All right.



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Now we got all those.



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Let's go to the driver to the driver side.



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I top dot L..



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Let's slide these first and we'll change this one after since it seems to be buggy.



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So I



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words it



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you know those times where you're looking so hard for something that you can't see it.



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Yeah I'm having one of those.



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All right.



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What's I name again.



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I lead top dot Hill.



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OK so let's look for Eilidh.



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Either it is right in front of my face as I say X as I suspected.



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All right.



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Let's change the average value and let's see if this works good.



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All right so for this one when you put the Z-axis down I just went over here and selected local space



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and it seemed that fix still obey but they control an and put the global Z-axis down on the downside



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you know blender is sometimes has glitches and bugs and sometimes you have to re click something or



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redo it and they will fix it.



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Now for that I lead.



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I actually wanted to be able to go up and open up some more.



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So selecting this I'm actually going to go to the I top dot L and put in the minimum value to negative



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1.



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That way if I grab this I can bring it up.



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Negative One is way too much on input negative point five.



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And the I talked on are as well negative point five.



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Now when I grab this I could bring it up or down and let me go ahead.



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Because I had removed the limits location are going to really add that back to here local space.



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Negative one and one



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and there we go.



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Fact



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on the one we could put it 2.5



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on the negative one negative point five.



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That way it doesn't go up so much.



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All right that's good.



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Now selecting the bottom one.



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Let's go ahead and rename this



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suit.



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I named this Eilidh Eilidh top Danielle.



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Let's rename this one right here.



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Or actually we already renamed it so it's fine.



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Select the character and then go to Eilidh.



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Bottom dot L. trying to find myself in all this.



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That's repetition of I'm trying to remember which one I was on.



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All right.



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Average value c space local space and the the armature not the camera.



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And then here we're going to select Eilidh bottom dot L. Resul like this so that the error goes away



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and then move this and you could see what's happening.



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Cool.



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So now with this one as well I want to although I once find I want to go over here to the I bottom dot



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L then put in the negative value to negative point five.



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Maybe I want him to be able to open his eye even more.



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There we go.



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And I'm going to limit the



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the movement.



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Why do I always select the wrong one.



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All right.



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Negative point five.



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There we go.



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So now it's limited and doesn't go as far down because some of them are rolled up on the Z and this



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one's on the negative Z.



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So I'm always flipping it in my head.



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All right so now I'd say Lobaton looks like both of these hit tab to go into edit mode shift the Z sorry



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x and then we're just going to go over here to armature and select flip names.



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That saved us a couple of seconds.



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So happy.