WEBVTT 00:00.500 --> 00:07.820 Welcome to the introduction to armatures in this video you will learn about the armature object and 00:07.910 --> 00:10.160 add an armature to your model. 00:10.460 --> 00:13.030 So let's hop straight on over into blender. 00:14.430 --> 00:14.700 Right. 00:14.700 --> 00:20.430 So over in blender The first thing that I'm going to do is actually just take a step away from our model 00:20.430 --> 00:24.210 for the moment so we can play with armatures by themselves. 00:24.210 --> 00:26.830 There's nothing else cluttering up the screen. 00:27.030 --> 00:33.650 So I'm going to go find new and get a new file loaded with this new blender file. 00:33.660 --> 00:41.370 Let's go ahead straightaway and add in an armature now an armature is an object much like our mesh object 00:41.380 --> 00:43.800 like lamps like cameras in our scene. 00:43.800 --> 00:47.950 So it's an object that can be manipulated it has a centre a position of rotation. 00:48.000 --> 00:50.720 You can scale it up and down you can do lots with it. 00:50.730 --> 00:53.550 So let's go in and one now so you can see what it looks like. 00:53.550 --> 00:55.960 I'm going to use a shift and a. 00:55.970 --> 00:58.310 And that was lucky it was right underneath the cursor. 00:58.440 --> 01:00.180 And I'm going to add an arm which you can see there. 01:00.180 --> 01:02.100 It says single bone. 01:02.370 --> 01:05.030 Incidentally that's not just luck. 01:05.290 --> 01:08.180 During my practice this is the last thing I chose. 01:08.310 --> 01:13.800 So when you go and add something would shift in a and in many other places in blender it remembers the 01:13.800 --> 01:15.870 last place you selected. 01:15.960 --> 01:17.940 In this case it was an arm which a single bone. 01:17.950 --> 01:20.270 So it appears there straight away. 01:20.430 --> 01:23.120 Assuming that's the next thing you want to do as well. 01:23.130 --> 01:28.180 Nice to time saving feature of blender though can be confusing we don't know why it's doing that. 01:29.350 --> 01:29.920 We click that. 01:29.950 --> 01:32.740 And one of your first questions will be I can't see it. 01:32.740 --> 01:34.140 Mike where is it. 01:34.390 --> 01:36.990 Well first of all it's within that cube. 01:37.060 --> 01:43.080 I can guarantee that and it does say armature over in the outline so no it does exist. 01:43.120 --> 01:49.060 So how do we make it so we can see it without hiding the objects especially if we're going to use these 01:49.060 --> 01:52.820 armchairs to control our mesh objects. 01:53.050 --> 01:58.960 Well let's have a look at the properties tab over here for the arm which is we've got the little stick 01:58.960 --> 02:00.220 figure over here. 02:00.220 --> 02:03.540 Now this gives us an option to name our armature. 02:04.030 --> 02:07.210 Now an armature consists of a series of bones within it. 02:07.270 --> 02:10.150 In this case we've only got one bone in one arm chair. 02:10.300 --> 02:16.480 And in general you'll probably not want to have more than one arm chair in your particular scenes at 02:16.480 --> 02:20.220 one time for a particular object. 02:20.260 --> 02:25.840 So if you had two people in a scene or since we're working on the lamp two lamps in your scene you'd 02:25.840 --> 02:28.530 have an armature per lamp itself. 02:28.600 --> 02:34.240 In fact with a lamp you could probably copy the armature across duplicate it and use it as a template 02:34.240 --> 02:40.700 armature for the other lamp unless there was some really big differences between them. 02:40.990 --> 02:42.930 Let's go down we got the skeleton. 02:42.930 --> 02:48.750 Got pole position and rest position and then if we keep going down we've got display. 02:48.910 --> 02:56.440 Okay so ok to he draw stick be bone envelope and why simply change how armature looks but we still can't 02:56.440 --> 02:57.510 see it at the moment. 02:57.580 --> 03:00.990 So put a tick in the box called x ray. 03:01.000 --> 03:05.380 Now we can see it and I'm going to hit the full stop on the number pad you could go to view and did 03:05.380 --> 03:06.470 the same thing. 03:06.730 --> 03:14.500 And we can actually see our bone now through any objects that might be in the way. 03:14.590 --> 03:17.480 And that's a great way of being able to see what's going on. 03:17.530 --> 03:23.290 Obviously when you're when they're inside a model like that you can't really have great control over 03:23.290 --> 03:26.020 them because you well you can't see what's going on. 03:26.020 --> 03:31.010 It's as simple as that turning on x-ray allows you to see the bones of the armature. 03:31.330 --> 03:36.610 Now a couple of other things that you may want to turn on and off just so you can get a bearing of what's 03:36.610 --> 03:37.470 going on. 03:37.660 --> 03:41.380 So we've got names and that'll turn on the name it's just called bone at the moment if we were to add 03:41.380 --> 03:47.590 another bone that would be bone 0 0 or 1 and then we've got the axes themselves ability the axes come 03:47.590 --> 03:49.600 alive just at the moment. 03:49.840 --> 03:57.760 But having that ongoing help you understand the relationship of the global coordinates AIs Z being up 03:58.360 --> 04:06.850 if we actually hopped on over into edit mode here we can see that a Y is currently up for this bone 04:06.850 --> 04:09.410 itself and that can be a bit confusing at first. 04:09.460 --> 04:16.710 So having the actual axes turned on will help massively especially when we come to constraining movements 04:17.200 --> 04:18.780 but more on that later. 04:19.000 --> 04:25.520 So in the Properties window next to the armature properties of a bone properties the bone itself where 04:25.540 --> 04:27.390 we want to name that bone. 04:27.520 --> 04:32.230 At the moment there's only one in the scene so it's pretty obvious which bone we're referring to but 04:32.230 --> 04:40.720 if we were to call that bone cube because that's the bone it's for it's very apparent then what that 04:40.720 --> 04:41.890 bone is designed to do. 04:41.890 --> 04:45.980 So if it was part of a human you might call it foote's Finger. 04:46.060 --> 04:50.040 Leg arm torso whatever head neck et cetera. 04:50.270 --> 04:55.410 So now we've named it how do we link these two things together. 04:55.780 --> 05:03.160 Well we want the armature itself to be the parent of the cube or more specifically that bone with in 05:03.160 --> 05:05.940 the arm chair to be a parent of that cube. 05:05.960 --> 05:11.810 There are a couple of ways of doing that but the easiest way is to select your child. 05:11.920 --> 05:17.590 So I'm going to hop back onto object mode select the child which is the cue hold down Shift and select 05:17.590 --> 05:19.270 the parents. 05:19.270 --> 05:22.190 Now you can get it through the object menu as well. 05:22.270 --> 05:23.280 Let's go to parenting. 05:23.320 --> 05:26.550 Or I like their shortcut keys control. 05:26.560 --> 05:33.740 MP for parents oh got a load of options here but we want to set it as a bone. 05:34.520 --> 05:35.090 There we go. 05:35.090 --> 05:41.660 We've got it set as a bone and we notice over in the outliner there the cube doesn't exist anymore. 05:41.660 --> 05:47.270 In fact if we open it up we can see it's now a child of the armature. 05:47.350 --> 05:49.760 Exactly we want what we want it to be. 05:49.910 --> 05:56.870 And if we actually go into the Cube property self under the object properties if we scroll down a little 05:56.870 --> 06:00.400 we can see the parent is the arm chair and the bone. 06:00.410 --> 06:02.880 It's linked to is the cube bone. 06:03.020 --> 06:04.460 Very useful. 06:04.460 --> 06:06.290 One final thing on bones. 06:06.350 --> 06:14.340 Depending on the type of mesh you're dealing with we're going to be dealing with a a rigid mesh are 06:14.340 --> 06:17.510 our lamp isn't going to be a bendy floppy lamp. 06:17.630 --> 06:21.480 It's actually going to have arms that are rigid and do not flex. 06:21.630 --> 06:23.310 They just move. 06:23.510 --> 06:28.900 So we select the bone again itself and have a look at the properties here. 06:28.970 --> 06:32.200 You will actually want to turn off the option deform. 06:32.360 --> 06:38.630 Otherwise when we try and move things later on you will actually distort our geometry rather than just 06:38.690 --> 06:39.440 move it. 06:39.560 --> 06:46.080 So it likely to unstick that for every bone that we're going to put into our lamp going forward. 06:46.890 --> 06:48.510 Okay guys it's Challenge time. 06:48.510 --> 06:51.660 I'd like you to add an armature to the lamp. 06:51.660 --> 06:58.560 So at an armature to our lamp and make sure the armature is located at 0 0 0 so right in the centre 06:58.560 --> 07:04.360 of our scene to centre the 3D cursor before you add it that's the easiest way of doing it. 07:04.680 --> 07:06.890 Call the armature lamp rake. 07:06.990 --> 07:10.250 That's essentially what it will be coming afterwards. 07:10.260 --> 07:13.340 Name the single bone that's generated stem. 07:13.740 --> 07:20.760 And then finally make that bone the parent of the stem mesh that we've already got my little cylinder 07:20.790 --> 07:22.250 coming out the base. 07:22.380 --> 07:22.640 Okay. 07:22.650 --> 07:25.020 Pause a video now and give that a go. 07:26.890 --> 07:28.330 Okay guys welcome back. 07:28.330 --> 07:30.660 Let's hop back on over into blender. 07:32.480 --> 07:37.460 Right now we're in our animated lamp which need to find the 3-d cursor first wars over there it's taking 07:37.460 --> 07:38.120 a break. 07:38.630 --> 07:41.900 So I'm going to you shift and see to recenter it. 07:41.900 --> 07:45.870 And then I'm going to press the number pad full stop. 07:45.950 --> 07:48.020 So it seems straight back in. 07:48.020 --> 07:52.160 Right now that we've re centred that we can go ahead and add armature. 07:52.430 --> 07:56.220 So we're in object mode yet again had an arm a single bone. 07:56.420 --> 07:58.930 Exxon So that's a bit large. 07:59.040 --> 08:01.820 So at this point I'm going to scale it down. 08:01.820 --> 08:04.720 It's much like any other objects as we've already discussed. 08:04.730 --> 08:08.110 So we've got the operator panel over here add armature. 08:08.240 --> 08:13.820 If I reduce the radius and it seems to be shrinking I'm going to set it so well there will do for the 08:13.820 --> 08:15.940 moment we can always alter it all later. 08:16.160 --> 08:22.240 And let's turn on x ray so I can see where it's sitting X and that's exactly where I want it to be so 08:22.240 --> 08:28.590 it's position is now right let's call it lamp reyk because that is what it's going to become. 08:28.590 --> 08:30.760 And lamp rake. 08:30.890 --> 08:31.640 Excellent. 08:31.640 --> 08:34.010 Now we've got the lamp rig named. 08:34.010 --> 08:39.370 We've got the one bone in there and we need to name that bones so with the bone selected that's good. 08:39.380 --> 08:43.650 We can go in here and nain the bone stem. 08:44.700 --> 08:49.100 I mean the the stem the child of the arm chair itself. 08:49.110 --> 08:49.980 Brilliant. 08:49.980 --> 08:56.820 Now the order in which you select these does matter and then control empy and set it to the bone. 08:56.820 --> 08:57.360 There we go. 08:57.370 --> 09:01.530 So finally let's just make sure we're not deforming So we're not deforming to we can unstick that in 09:01.530 --> 09:02.750 the bone properties. 09:02.770 --> 09:04.870 Your name stem there. 09:04.890 --> 09:08.280 I'm going to name this here lamp rig. 09:09.370 --> 09:13.840 So in all we were talking about Essence I think there's everything done. 09:13.930 --> 09:14.380 Excellent. 09:14.380 --> 09:16.000 How did you guys get on. 09:16.460 --> 09:20.160 Please share in the discussions and I'll see you in the next lecture.