A Complete Guide to Character Rigging for Games Using Blender

22 Dealing with Clutter

DOI: 10.1201/9781003263166-22

The Problem

This section covers some tips on how to make it easier to deal with the inevitable problem of having many bones occupying the same visual space. See Figure 22.1.

FIGURE 22.1 A taste of what a finished rig looks like, with hundreds of overlapping bones.

Different Bone Lengths

The rigs will contain multiple cases where several bones have the same location, orientation and length, which makes them look like the same bone. To actually see that there are multiple bones instead of just one, we can change their lengths. Changing a bone’s length does not affect its position or rotation. ...