cvELD Quick Rig 2 Overview

This manual has been rewritten for Quick Rig2. Previous versions are not supported.
The reason is that bone groups and bone layers were discontinued and merged into bone collections.

■Single Bone Create

1. Create Bone
   Bone Creation : Head or Tail Create a new bone in the same direction from the selected bone.
   
2. Create Offset Bone
   Offset Bone Creation. Insert a new bone into the parent of the selected bone.
   
3. Create Group Bone
   Group Bone Creation. Put a new bone between the parents of multiple selected bones. Grouping.
   
4. Create Stretch Bone
   Stretch Bone Creation. Create a new bone on the tail of the selected bone. Give it a stretch constrain.
   
5. Create Track Bone
   Track Bone Creation. Create a new bone on the tail of the selected bone. Give it a track constrain.
   
6. Create Half Srt Bone
   Half SRT Bone Creation. Get only half of the position, rotation, and size.
   
7. Create Child Cns Bone
   Child Constraint Bone Creation.
   
8. Create Ratio Bone
   Ratio Bone Creation. Create a new bone based on the length of the selected bone.
   

■IK Bone Create

1. Create Ik Bone
   Select any quantity of bones; IK constrains will be automatically assigned.
   
2. Create Ikfk Slider
   Select and execute the bone with the IK constrain given to it.
   Create a controller for IKFK switching.

■Multiple Bone Create

1. Create Bridge Bone
   Bone Creation Between Selections.
   
2. Create Stretch Bridge Bone
   Stretch Constrain Bone Creation Between Selections.
   
3. Create Track Bridge Bone
   Track Constrain Bone Creation Between Selections.
   
4. Create Three Joint Bone
   Create Three-Jointed Bone with two Selected Bones.
   
5. Create Bone From Curve
   Create bones from curve. Select a curve and choose an armature. Switch to Pose mode and select one bone to execute.
6. Create Circular Bones
   Ability to create a circular arrangement of bones
   

■Bone Pinning

1. Bone Pinning Transform
   Pinning Selection Bone transforms to global.
   Re-execute the command on the selected bone to release the pinning.
   
2. Bone Pinning Direction
   Pinning Selection Bone direction to global.
   Re-execute the command on the selected bone to release the pinning.
   
3. Create Pinning Group
   Putting the pinning together Create Empty.

■Bone Transform

1. Fit Bones
   Fit the selected bone to the active bone
   
2. Match Transform Bones
   Match the transform of the selected bone to the active bone
   
3. Rotate Edit Bone Global
   Rotate EditBone to global rotation value.
   
4. Align Bones
   Align selected bones.
   
5. Align Bones In Hierarchy
   Select a parent bone and a child bone and align the bones between them.
6. Snap Near Bone
   Snap Nearest Head or Tail.
   
7. Mirror Bone
   The selected bones can be symmetrized according to three different rules. 'Symmetry Name', 'Active Bone', 'Self'.
   Supports 'Edit Mode' and 'Pose Mode'.
   
8. Flip Pose
   flip with a symmetrical name.

■Bone Utility

1. Set Parent
   Parent selected bones to the active bone. Also In Pose Mode.
   
2. Clear Parent
   Unparent the selected bones. Also In Pose Mode.
   
3. Set Bone Collection
   Put the selected bones in a bone Collection.
   
4. Set Custom Shape
   Apply custom shapes. There are 32 of them available.
   
5. Set Bone Display Type
   Change Display as in Viewport Display of Armature.
   
6. Create Bone Collection From Addon Property
   An operator for creating a new bone collection. Using bone collections allows for logical grouping and organization of bones within an armature.
   
7. Delete Bones Also In Pose Mode
   Delete Bones Also In Pose Mode.
8. Copy Bone Color And Col From Active Bone(Copy Bone Color And Collection From Active Bone)
   This feature copies the color and collection settings from the active bone to other selected bones, making visual organization and management of bones easier.

■Utility

1. Isolate Object
   Selected Objects Isolated. 
   May not function if there is garbage in the scene. Please clean up or move the RIG to a new scene.
   
2. Isolate Pose Bone
   Selected Edit Bone Isolated.
   May not function if there is garbage in the scene. Please clean up or move the RIG to a new scene.
   
3. Isolate Edit Bone
   Selected Edit Bone Isolated
   May not function if there is garbage in the scene. Please clean up or move the RIG to a new scene.
   
4. Mirror Drivers For Pose Bone
   Create drivers for mirror pose bones. We need a symmetric name. The driver in the constrain will not flip left or right.
   
5. Reset Operator
   Reset the operator's properties to their default values.

■Skinning Utility

1. Create Skinning Object from Bones
   This operator generates a polygon mesh or curve object based on the positions of selected bones. Key features include:
   Option to choose between polygon or curve output
   Option to use current pose positions
   Option to generate faces within detected bone chains
   Option to connect faces between chains
   Option to automatically apply an armature modifierCustomizable color, display type, and shading settings for the generated object
2. Keep Shape and apply modifier(Shape Freeze)
   This operator applies specified modifiers while preserving the object's shape. Main features include:
   Support for applying subdivision, multires, armature, lattice, mesh deform, and shrinkwrap modifiers
   Ability to apply modifiers while preserving shape keys
   Skips unapplicable modifiers and displays warnings.
   There is an Execute button at the top of the modifier tab.