Bone Groups

Reference

Mode:Pose Mode Panel:Properties editor ‣ Armature ‣ Bone Groups Menu:Pose ‣ Bone Groups ‣ …

This panel allows the creation, deletion and editing of Bone Groups. Bone Groups can be used for selection or to assign a color theme to a set of bones. In example to color the left parts of the rig as blue and right parts as red.

Active Bone Group

The Bone Group List view.

Color Set

You can assign a “color theme” to a group (each bone will have these colors). Remember you have to enable the Colors checkbox (Display panel) to see these colors.

Bone Color Set

A select menu.

• Default Colors: The default (gray) colors.
• nn - Theme Color Set: One of the twenty Blender presets by the theme.
• Custom Set: A custom set of colors, which is specific to each group.

Normal

The first color field is the color of unselected bones.

Selected

The second color field is the outline color of selected bones.

Active

The third color field is the outline color of the active bone.

As soon as you alter one of the colors, it is switched to the Custom Set option.

Assign and Select

In the 3D Views, using the Pose ‣ Bone Groups menu entries, and/or the Bone Groups pop-up menu Ctrl-G, you can:

Assign

Assigns the selected bones to the active bone group. It is important to note that a bone can only belong to one group.

Remove

Removes the selected bones from the active bone group.

Select

Selects the bones in the active bone group.

Deselect

Deselects the bones in the active bone group.

See also

A single bone can be assigned to a group in the Relations panel.

See also

Bones belonging to multiple groups is possible with the Selection Sets add-on.