Bones issues with animation editor

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#1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I want to animate the slime rig that I made. It has two bones, one really small one at the base to keep it from moving and another larger one. I have a picture of how it shows up in blender.

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  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    The bones for the rig are showing up oddly in studio. When I select them in the explorer they show up as small dots at the base of the slime mesh. However, when I looked at videos about rigging in roblox here was purple things representing the bones. When I open up the animation editor I am not able to select the dots, so I can’t animate the rig. I’m guessing I made some mistake in the importing process, making the rig in blender, or it’s supposed to be this way and I’m just being dumb.

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  1. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    I watched videos on youtube showing how to import the rigs to see if I was making any errors importing. I also checked to see if I was making any errors with animating it, but I didn’t find anything out.
#2

You should probably post this in Art Design instead of Scripting Support, as this seems animation related rather than a script issue.

#3

Must have put it in the wrong place, whoops. Moved it, sorry.

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#4

Hey, did you ever figure this out?

#5

No, I kind of gave up. I couldn’t find a solution anywhere.

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#6

Are you still having trouble with this? You can try pressing the “Add a new animation track” button in the animation editor to manually add animation tracks for the bones, select them from there, and then manipulate them with the movement tools.

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#7

You mean Plus button? Because when i press plus button i can see all bones in mesh but when i click on bone it doesn’t appear on animation track.

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#8

Are you able to send a screenshot?

#9

Don’t you have to like rig a vertex to the bone in blender for it to work?

#10

I know that this is a really old post but for the character in order to animate you can’t have anything else in there besides the bones No HumanoidRootParts No welds no nothing

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#11

Already fixed, problem was that i changed PrimaryPart, but primarypart should be mesh thats animated.

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#12

Press on the simbol of " + " and press add all.

#13

Wow, thank you so much for replying to an old post because I was having this exact issue. I re imported my custom avatar and didn’t add a humanoid or root part or anything to it. Went back to animator and it let me add all the bones. THANK YOU.

Lesson learned:
-Import custom character
-Create custom animations
-THEN add humanoid and other needed parts.

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