• Zophiekat

  over 2 years ago

  I thought the concept behind the addon was awesome for great bone visibility and cleaner rigs for animation and posing. But I was dissapointed upon finding out that what you can see in the video example is pretty much all you can do with this addon.

  - Bone selection is glitchy, "keep highlights" doesn't really do much of a difference on keeping bone visibility highlighted.
  - selecting multiple bones works half the time, this is more noticeable trying to select bones from other armatures, making it useless for having multiple armatures in pose mode
  - lack of functionality, you can only have 1 colour for the whole armature, you can't assign different transparency or occlussion settings for different bones, or simply have a way to display currently unselected skin bones, it either is highlighted or it isnt. even with "keep highlights" option

  I thought that there might have been something else I could do with this addon, but it only has 1 color, glitchy highlights dissapearing, and single bone highlight. if that's all you need then great because thats all you get

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  Artell

  about 2 years ago

  Hello Zophiekat, thanks for your feedback and sorry to hear you're not happy with it.
  -Highlights may be glitchy sometimes indeed, since it's only an addon and not a core feature it was difficult implement it. Many workarounds had to be found to cache the mesh data and display highlights. That's at least better than nothing, but sure ideally it would be best if it was a native feature of Blender to make it perfect. But that's also why the price is low.
  - Selecting multiple bones from multiple armatures may indeed not be supported, it hasn't be tested yet
  - Multiple coloring is indeed not supported, and would be nice to have, but note it was never mentioned in the product description. But it's definitely an interesting suggestion.
• Jay

  about 4 years ago

  A really good addon.. Helps with keeping the viewport clean and focus on anims ..
  Thankyou dev for the awesome after sales support!

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  Artell

  about 4 years ago

  Thanks for rating Jay!
• Bay Raitt

  over 5 years ago

  this is fantastic. I can't wait until the multiple select is implemented!

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  Artell

  about 4 years ago

  Thanks for the review!
• Brandon Ayers

  over 6 years ago

  This is exactly what I was wanting. I like to have little in the way of viewing my character when animating. This means I normally hide bones that I'm not working with. This can become a tedious process. But Skin Selection has came to the rescue! I can now directly select my mesh to animate! I do love this. However there are a few issues that I have. One is that you can't see Motion Paths with it on. I believe this is due to the fact that it turns on Only Render in the 3d-view. I don't know if it's possible to fix this issue. The second issue is if you are playing an animation and press ESC to stop it, it doesn't stop it first it turns off Only Render and the Bone Shapes are visible but you have to press ESC again to stop the animation then press Stop on Skin selection. This may also be impossible to fix, but just something to think about. In the end the slightly tedious setup is worth it and I highly recommend this add-on to any animators who like a clean interface while animating.

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  Artell

  over 6 years ago

  Thank you Brandon for rating!
  I understand the motion path visibility restriction is annoying indeed, a workaround is to disable the "Only Render" automatically being enabled when starting the process, but this is not the perfect solution yet. Blender 2.8 will bring way more options to easily customize the display, i'll investigate.

  To stop the animation, pressing Alt-A instead of Escape should fix the issue. However i'll remove the Escape shortcut to stop Skin Selection, indeed it can accidentally "overlap" other shortcuts action.
• Max Cajazeiras

  almost 7 years ago

  Great! It works very well for me, it helps a lot! Many thanks great work!

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  Artell

  over 6 years ago

  Thank you!
• Ndroid

  almost 7 years ago

  - Terribly slow even on a simple character (UE4 mannequin). After creating more than 20 vertex groups there is a very noticeable lag between the click and the actual selection of the controller.
  - No obvious multi-selection functionality.
  - Shading is flickering when x-ray is disabled.
  - Very tedious setup process.

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  Artell

  almost 7 years ago

  Sorry to hear this Ndroid.

  It should not be slow, unless something special is happening, such as lots of performance consuming modifiers in the stack, surface subdivision set to a high level... The video demonstrating the feature is recorded in real time, and as you can see selection is made instantly. I suggest to create a support message (red life belt icon on the side of this page) and to send a sample blend file for me to check what is going on.

  About multiple bones selection, it is mentionned in the product description that it's not yet implemented.

  The highlights may flicker when X-Ray is not turned on, that's true. It's best to leave it turned on.

  The setup process is demonstrated in the video:
  https://youtu.be/x8AOj-nDn2o
• Pistol Ioan Alexandru

  almost 7 years ago

  Pros:
  Here is what they use at Disney: https://youtu.be/0Z-0EskUcDs?t=2m17s
  With this tool, your selection process is much quicker at the same time you take advantage of the clear viewport, controlling up to three bones with one skin selection.
  With clear viewport, it's easier to focus on the animation and posing without thinking what bones should I need to select.
  Is actually very easy to set up because you define only the green part that you want to select.
  The price is quite cheap for what he offer.
  Cons:
  No multiple skin selection, but may be added in the future.
  And because Python code is a bit slower, when using in a populated scene with Subsurf even with global subdivision at level 1 seems to be a bit of delay between selecting and showing the green skin, maybe 300ms or less.

  Overall I recommend you to buy this awesome add-on because buying it you will support future development of it.
  Is the best tool for every animator that respects himself.

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  Artell

  almost 7 years ago

  Thanks for your feedback Pistol Ioan Alexandru!
  This duly noted. And yes performance with subsurf is something i'm aiming to improve. Cheers!

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