Custom properties and drivers in blender made easy
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- In this beginners friendly Blender 3D turorial, learn how custom propeties work and how to properly create. Understand drivers and combine them.
!!Disclaimenr!! It seems the "PROPERTIES" tip doesn't work all the time. I have just found that it was working through an addon you can get there : gitlab.com/AquaticNightmare/s...
Sorry about hat people, my bad.
00:00 intro
00:37 Data blocks
01:41 Custom properties
03:22 Drivers
06:16 Rig custom properties
08:53 Scripted expression made easy
12:59 Special announcement
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TIP : If you want custom property to be a color then type [1.0,1.0,1.0] in Property value and magically you will see a dropdown appear with name 'subtype'. In that dropdown you can select linear color or gamma corrected color press ok and voila!!!
Thanks so much for this one. Totally forgotten this trick 😊
InstaBlaster
leaving this here in case people need it: for newer versions of blender, all you need to do is change the property type to "float array," then the subtype options appear.
@@UncleSalad To cap it off, leaving the array length at 3 gives you the color picker, and 4 gives you a color picker with the alpha option.
!!Disclaimenr!! It seems the "PROPERTIES" tip doesn't work all the time. I have found what make it works, it's an addon I had and I didn't remember : gitlab.com/AquaticNightmare/space_switcher/-/tree/master
maybe some add-on you have enabled? Anyhow just commenting to be notified if someone comes up with reason how to get it to work/why it worked for you.
@@3Rton Yeah, we're investigating but can't find how :(
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN looking forward to hearing how you got it to work - I was wondering about this very thing! :)
@@jschleifer Well, it was dew to an aadon that was still enabled. gitlab.com/AquaticNightmare/space_switcher/-/tree/master
Sorry for the misslead
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN Thanks Pierrick! It would be great if it could also work in BoneLayers>Rig Properties!
Man, I can't believe it was *this* easy! I've been wondering how to do this for ages now, thanks for the quick and easy-to-follow tutorial!
This.
THIS.
Thank you for this.
I am searching for this kind of explanation since for ever.
These little tutorials are INCREDIBLY insightful! Thank you so much for making your knowledge digestable and sharing it with us for free!
"Alive!" will certainly be my next course purchase. Looking forward!
Wonderfully well explained; many native English speakers would struggle to achieve that level of clarity with this complex subject. You'd given me an elegant solution that enabled me to greatly streamline a workflow within minutes of the beginning of your video. Thanks for uploading! :)
Thanks for this! I learned Custom Properties from this video and just made a video to simplify it even more for Grease Pencil rigging. I linked to your video so people can come here for in-depth information.
Your work is an inspiration! Can't wait for the new animation course. i've been learning a lot from the rigging course
Much love from brazil!
This video was the tutorial I have needed to add what was missing from my rig! Thank you!!!
Can't wait for the animation course. Would definitely try it !
Your courses about rigging and character creation are one of the best I've seen. Fantastic Work, merci beaucoup!!!
Thank you so much !
Your channel is a goldmine. Thank you for sharing all this knowledge with us.
As always awesome content Pierrick! 🔥
Yaahh man. Looking forward to your animation course. I think it will be the perfect combination with your rigging course, which is a very good learning resource.
Thanks !
Seen some good tuts before, but this blew my hair straight back, and maybe turned it white too. I didn't know blender could do that. Good work. Thank you. Subbed and liked. I'll stay tuned.
Thanks For your Great Tips, Pierrick!! IT's amazing!
Just learned new and useful things in blender. Thanks for the good tutorial 👍👍
Thank you! I learning Blender From Years. But Guys like you always shows me something new!
wow a tutorial w actual knowledge and information? this is amazing thank you
This gave me just the insight in the drivers to fix my issue.
Thank you.
2:39 - Thank you Pierrick! Great tip! Great video! 8:30 - Mind-blown! 13:46 - Awesome!
the most easy tutorial to explain drivers you're my hero ! i subscribe
NICE. I cant wait! Work faster. :D I really enjoyed your course - Art of effective rigging. Its really good I learned so much thanks
High quality blender tutorial. Thank you!
Amazing video!
Thank you so much. ♥
there is always a guy on youtube who explains you literally everything with a bad english accent. Huge thanks
Fortunately there is always a guy on UA-cam to make constructive and interesting comments.
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN nah man I'm being honest you really helped me with this topic appreciated it
Your course is amazing! Currently on chapter6 and it's so good.
Thanks!
Wich course did you take?
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN The one rigging the Crimson Ronin.
amazing! thank you for this explanation. Blender is more amazing everyday
Thanks for a great video on a topic that I find pretty "overlooked".
Best regards..
thank you for an incredible tutorial!
❤️
I'm only halfway through the video and this is already a game-changer
12:58 *where it all started ...* The official announcement of the birth of the course, *Alive!*
Pierrick, on behalf of the community, and on my *own* behalf, Thank you for all that you do. You've changed our lives. We love you. Thank you for everything. *KEEP THE AWESOMENESS FLOWING!!!*
Great tutorial, many thanks
Thank's for this good news ^^ the courses ! i waiting :)
I love this to much... Thank you so muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I'v been looking for this a long time! ty ty ty...
Very helpful, thank you.
This video save my day! Merci !
Doing the lord's work
I am waiting Your Animation course! Now i am studing Your Rigging course, and I am looking for continue with my own rigging models in animation.
Thank you! Your tutorials including both the Animation Alive and Art of Rigging and many others have been a tremendous influence on my learning. I appreciate all of your dedicated work!
Thanks for your support
Merci pour ces tutos incroyable
best TUTORIAL EVER
Excellent! Merci.
Thanks :D
I was pulling my hair out until I found this video! Thank you so much!
Great tutorial! Thank you. I don't see the Rig Properties section though, just Properties. Does that require an add on?
As of newer versions of blender, in the configuration options of the custom property there's a new parameter called "step", defaulted to 1. Does anybody know what does it mean?
Hello thank you very much. its very nice. i have a doubt. plz help me. dont want to see location, rotation, scale channels in the item panel. want to see only custom properties in item blender. how to remove channels.. plz help. thank you
Thanks!
Thanks for this video, helps so much!
Thanks Louis, love your content!
How is the isometropolis project going on?
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN Thanks. Quite slowly, I'm always finding other things to do, but want to get back to it "soon" :)
I remember you replying to me you're working on a new course. I was hoping it'd be animation and voila! My wallet is ready. :D
im on chapter 5 trying to start the run panel, I cant find the rig property panel on 3d view propety panel I'm using blender 3.6
I am looking for a way to attach a file path to a geometry ("custom property" seems like a good idea for it) and refer to it later in a shading node system. Any chance for that? Thanks in advance!
don't know if i messed up something but it's not really working in blender 3.1, i don't even have the rig properties and space switcher tab showing up
Hello, I have a question how to scale a rig to relatively scale triggers as well? And maybe You know if I can scale Character with a rig and hair system as well? I have controllers for action, but I need to change how far I need to move my controller to play an animation when I scale it. Maybe there is a way to do it better?
I am not seeing the rig properties panel in version 3.2.1...is there something you need to do to turn it on? It appears to just be there from the start for you, I don't see it in any of my installed versions of blender. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
i once saw a method to constantly animate a property using drivers but i didn't quite get how it worked. Does anyone have an idea how this could work?
Thanks! Just fixed a rig that didn't have custom properties for ik/fk fingers switch in 5 minutes
I think I figured out how to make this a little bit more clear.
Since I'm using Auto-Rig pro....
What I'm trying to do is use a DRIVER and use the DRIVER to SWITCH the character's elevation/height and move the feet and toes to fit in different shoe elevation.
I know I have to use Copy transformer (I think), custom properties and single properties to achieve this.
0 flat-footed. 1 for shoes. 2 boots. 3 high heel
But what is the best way to go about doing it?
merci beaucoup.
9:06 if anyone is having problem parenting bones :
*While dublicating bones make sure you are in edit mode* 🥲
Oh , so this is how to do "driven keys animation" in blender ?
did you try layer animation using the addon ?
I am still waiting for the animation course btw :P
TIP: If you use Rigify and regenerate your rig often as you tune it, you'll have noticed any custom properties on the control bones get wiped out every time. (btw if you know how to avoid this please drop a reply). I work around this by adding the custom property to a joint on the metarig as these get transferred to a control bone when you generate the rig, not always predictably but you can get something working that'll avoid you having to manually recreate your custom props.
Also, Pierrick looking out for the Blender animators. Thanks man.
Hey man you are inspiration for all of us who want to rig and animate please tell us when you release your rig and animation course for blender.am going to buy that.
Thanks for your support
would you mind to do some finger driver usage?
You can create a new Single Property driver input by just using Copy As New Driver right next to Copy Data Path, and then Paste Driver, or pasting just the driver variable inside an existing driver.
Cool! Thanks for the tip
This is awesome
8:00 I can't see the Rig Properties tab, only Properties. So the trick of renaming the bone to PROPERTIES doesnt work. Any solution?
You will need a bit of coding
Great video :) Is there an option or add on I need to activate to make the rig properties tap appear? I have renamed my properties bone but it didn't show up. Using 2.91.
Man I'm sorry, it seems it doesn't work for everyone and we can't figure out why. What addon or whatever otpion made it works for me.... 😥 I'm sorry
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN no worries, its a great feature though. I'll have a look for it too or write a script for something similar
Hey Pierrick this was a really good tutorial on drivers. Can you please make a tutorial on how to set up custom properties to hide parts of a rig. Say i want to work on the feet/legs/torso without being distracted by the arms. So I want to hide them.
In the original rig file I have made vertex groups for each arm, then created mask modifiers targeting those vertex groups. I've made custom props on the character, sat up drivers to hide them and it works there. But as I link in the rig in an empty file, those custom properties do not follow nor does the vertex groups so how do I solve this issue?
Pretty sure critical giants did a video on that
Bonjour,
J'aime bien vos videos parce qu'elles ne sont pas basiques tout en restant accessibles. Je veux dire sujet complexe mais traitement simple. J'ai un problème compliqué à résoudre. feriez-vous un tutoriel sur demande?
Great course ! Do the "driver driven shapekey animations" work in Unity ?
Yes
That renaming it "Properties" trick doesn't work anymore?
What's the point when its overriding remaining two which already 1
rather we can write an expression on each constraint
1 if a==1 else 0
1 if b==2 else 0
1 if c==3 else 0
1 if d==4 else 0
in these case only one object will work but we can set which object we need to move unlike above where we ended with last target
I dont remember exactly, but at the time I wasn’t familiar at all with basic expressions and python.
You can just write
A==1
B==2 …
The Boolean will return 0 if it’s not the case
Great video👍
I would greatly appreciate it if you made a video on how to make sword trails
OK, I will add it to my tutorial list :)
:D
Hi. Pierrick, I really admire your work, and currently saving for your course on Blender market. I have an small inquiry. It is possible to turn ON and OFF, the drivers? Like when you turn visibility on and off over bone constraints. Thanks, and stay safe. Saludos desde México
Hi, thanks for your kind words.
You can’t do that directly. You would need to script it to have your custom properties displayed as butons or visibility toglle
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN Good to know. Thanks for all. Abrazos.
I saw the add for the course but before signing I want to be sure it contains what I need: I want to build a perfect knee junction with muscles and tendons like a dancer"s leg (female). I am almost there but I could learn from you. Does the cours will allow me do to that?
No answer means "Nope"?
how to get these custom properties on a new tab we create instead of Item tab?
You need to do a bit of script
@@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN oh, ok
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something unique.
there is just one thing missing here, What if i want to add the custom property and then use that on a different object?
Just drive the other object.
Custom props are just using driver, you can use drivers on anything keyable.
how to create bone visibility as a custom property?
You can right click on the "screen icon" of the bone in the outliner and add a driver.
This will allow you to hide a specific bone at once. or you can put it on a specific layer.
Hello, I would like to build a computer to do development, 2d and 3d graphics (modeling, animation, etc.) with blender and krita as software, as well as a few games.
But the problem is, I don't know what to take for processor and graphics card. I do not know if it is better to take a ryzen 3900 or take the new 5000. And for the graphics card I wanted to go on amd too but the same, a 5700 or the new 6000. But I am still open to other configs.
I thought to put a budget between 1000/1500 € see 2000 € big max.
I specify that I am an amateur in the field of graphics but I would like a computer which lasts in the long term.
What do you recommend?
Well, regarding the processor, AMD are great, it's more a matter of budget, but Ryzen are good CPU. For the graphic card I would suggest switching to Nvidia though.
They are better supported by blender and faster. For the same price you could have a 3070 wich would be a blast for sure.
I can personally say from the experience of still being on I7 4790k that I don't feel that limited being on 4 cores (in modeling, texturing, sculpting although I sculpt in Zbrush which generally feels more responsive on my system than B3D atm) in other hand my GPU is definitely showing its age. BUT if you were to instead work a lot on particles, fluids with mantaflow, animations with multiple rigs+1subd per rig, your experience would be different.
Between Ryzen 3000 and 5000 series it mainly comes down to what you are doing and prices for available CPUs. The cores 5000 series will be nominally better, the instruction improvement is supposed to be around 19% between the generation. However, lets hypothetically look at 5000 series with 8 cores vs 3000 series with 12 cores
5000 series could be 19% faster at same clocks and core count but the 3000 series has 34% more cores. If your use case can utilize all the cores in this case the 3000 could be better. But if your use case DOESNT multithread properly the 5000 would be faster. Puget system has some good benchmarks with relevant software (if you compare the 5900X and 3900X they difference tends to be between 5%-20% as would be expected)
www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/AMD-Ryzen-5000-Series-CPU-Review-Roundup-1962/
Another thing to consider though is your RAM speed. If your RAM is low it will bottleneck your CPU so it won't really matter how fast or many cores you have (after say 6 cores) So if you are considering the choice between 3000 series 12core with 3200MHz RAM vs 3000 series 16 core with 2400MHz you should go with the 12 core. I wouldn't consider less than 3200Mhz with more than 8 cores. Ideally I would want to get 3600MHz or more with the 12 core. Going beyond that, though, validation for higher speed RAM has been finnicky so it might be not worth the hassle.
For the GPU side you definitely want to either go with the new RX6000 series or RTX 2000/3000 series. The optix backends for RTX accelerated rendering are amazing. The Substance applications support accelerating your map baking with optix which is equally amazing. Right now AMD is behind in terms of software support BUT the new cards do have raytrace accelerators (the RX5000 cards do not have physical accelerators for this) Nvidia also has deep learning accelerators on their cards which they are using for all kinds of cool things. But at the same time some overclockers are getting the RX6800XT to trade blows with RTX 3090 on air. So it is really hard to say. AMD has notoriety for bad software support but if they do get their stuff together there..?
Additional consideration, though, is CUDA. CUDA is GPU programming language for Nvidia cards. (AMDs alternative would be OpenCL) CUDE support can be relevant because not all apps support OpenCL. The biggest example used to be Substance apps which were CUDA only so you wouldn't be able to use them/would be stuck with software acceleration. This has since been remedied, though, so I don't know of any big example for this. AliceVision Meshroom is the only example I can think of immediately where without CUDA compatible card you'll be stuck using the CPU. Anyhow this might be a consideration.
For myself what I've done is I bought dirt cheap RTX 2060 from blackfriday sale. I've waited way too long for an upgrade to wait any longer. But at the same time I don't want to spend big money right now before seeing how the 6000 series matures. I remember the RTX launch when we had marbles demo and 4 games that supported the feature if you wanted to play at cinematic 30 fps. But then after some months optix baking for substance was announced. And then they sponsored the development of the Optix backend for Blender and we got the optix viewport. And then they slapped every RTX2000 series owner in the face with the RTX3000 series launch. If next two years for AMD look anything similar... oh boy
Anyhow hope some of this has been useful, gl/hf
@@3Rton Thanks for the detailed answer :)
@@3Rton thank you for all this information. i think i'll finally go to nvidia for the gpu. But I was told that it is better to have two gpu for rendering. But two 3070s are not giving either. For the RAM, I plan to 32go 3200mhz. After for the cpu, I still hesitate either the 3900x or the 5600x. I would like a pc that holds up for a while.
@@Fred-fx2lp Well two GPU's means you can render two frames at the same time but I don't know if I'd invest into that before you actually know you'll have so many frames to render that it'd be justified to go for that. 3070 is a good card in general, I doubt you'll have much to complain about it for the next 3 years.
Can't think of much more to say on the CPU. 3900X has twice the cores 5600X has ~20% better cores. It'll mainly come down to what kind of workload you will be using the CPU for 3 years from now.
hey again my friend! Would it be possible to make a tutorial on rigging a skirt or robe? I've searched for a long time but there aren't really many video's about it. There is probably a reason why they rarely use skirts or robes in games? (unless its open between the legs) Could you please give some advice on what kind of mechanics you would use to create a skirt rig? Everything I tried looks ugly. I also tried cloth simulation but while better looking for sure, it's still is not ideal. (probably because I'm not good)
Well, in feature film this genraly a technical artist job to make this kind of thing. IT's not really at the rig level but more at the simulation level (which I don(t do at all).
In games, robes and skirt are a pain, because it's very complicated to get a nice movement, it clips all the time and it's hard to figure a somple rig.
I will study it and see what I can do.
if prefer use this king of logic in the driver:
1 if SNATCH == 1 else 0
2 if SNATCH == 2 else 0
3 if SNATCH == 3 else 0
as this i can see clearly what value is in use by witch bone
Please talk about Driver Graph Editor.
I'm learn about driver last 2 months, and I still don't know about Driver Graph editor.
Maybe u can make video about it ?
OK, I've added it to my tutorial list :)
So I started using Blender 3.1 and when I link my rigged character to another scene and use the library override everything is fine except when I click on the properties bone all the sliders are greyed out which is weird because I don’t recall this ever happening before (in 2.9 I believe)
Some help would be appreciated
u have to enable is library overridable to use linked data
@@nightblade178 Are you talking about right clicking the linked character, going down to ID Data, then Make Library Override Hierarchy?
Because I did that initially. After doing that I go into Pose Mode click the properties bone and all the sliders are still gray. I don’t know if there’s something I missed.
@@isaacfields7923 0:01 the check he ticked. U have to check that box
Ohhhhh!
I’m dumb, thanks!
Can't seem to get rig properties to show. Anyone else have this issue?
same
UPD: I made a post with an answer for this topic
blender.stackexchange.com/questions/271877/parametrizing-rig-in-pose-mode/272318#272318
as explained in the video's description: the rig properties panel is actually from the third pary addon Space Switcher, available here:
gitlab.com/AquaticNightmare/space_switcher/-/tree/master
-What will be the difference between Effective Rigging In Blender and the new course?
-How much of the new course will be aimed at game engines?
The art of effectivie rigging is about rigging. This is going to be an animation course so it will be quite different.
Animation technics can then be used in feature or games, no problem
From what he said I would assume that the main focus of the new course is ANIMATION while the focus of the Effective Rigging is RIGGING.
I would assume the new course has relatively little creature/asset rigging except for constraints used between rigs etc (say basic stuff like weapon constrained to the palm and so on)
As for how game engine focused no clue, hopefully he will see this and clarify on that himself.
in blender 3.6 there's no rig properties tab, or I don't know how activate it and I can't find any info about it -.-
With the new course please include looping animations for games!! please please
Yeah don't worry. This is something I've also shown here : ua-cam.com/video/QmGCBA4yLvY/v-deo.html
Btw , why dont you use riggify ?
I thought such modular rigging system would be perfect for fast rigging of "Noara" type characters
I prefer to build my own rig and some rigfgify features doesn't fit our requirement.
Plus, a lot of our characer are not 100% human proportioned so....
I don't think that much studios use riggify in producction to be honest
Mercy boku
UV sphere has no place in MY modelling engine.
Met les sous titre en français aussi : (
Je n'en ai pas.
Ca coute un bras de les faire traduire, je ne peux pas me permettre de générer des CC dans différentes langues.
Omar no Hamar
Tell me you are French without actually telling me you are French)
All is fine and understandable, but I can't understand why you skipped the very important part after you typed "color". I have now hard times... Hardly figured out some things like where to find the proper editor type, then how to add a RGB dial, but it still not works... You wasted a lot of time with simple things and skipped this important moment at all... I never worked with nodes etc, still learning all this and for now this video is worthless for me, just wasted my time and learned just a very little... ok, I will try to find some other video, clearly explaining how to make it work ...
Thanks a lot!! Very helpful.