Hide bones optically

[mystd]

I want to make some adjustments to my art but I've added a lot of bones and they obstruct the view. When I press the eyes symbol on the bones layer it hides all the layers inside but leaves the bones. I need it the other way around hide the bones and show the content without them.

Also when I move a bone to see better and then try to edit some points it always snaps back into a position where I can't see the art.

[jahnocli]

Er...Bone | Hide Selected Bones?

[mystd]

Oh ok that was easier than I thought, I was so fixated on the eye symbol that I didn't bother to look in there. But I can't manipulate the bones when I hide them, that is a problem. Is it possible to manipulate the bones without all the graphics? There is the graphics of the bones and then the graphics of the bone strength an with those stacked together I pretty much can't see what's beneath. I kind of am trying to move different parts to see if everything works well together so I can adjust the layers to make joints fit together smoothly. Switching between hiding and unhiding the bones is very annyoing there isn't even a keyboard shortcut.

Also is there any way to keep the bone from snapping back into the default pos when I use the translate tool?

[mystd]

Anyone?

I'm currently selecting a bone I move the bone with Z, Press T, it snaps back I use hide selected bones and then try to guess where I have to translate the points to. Then I need to got to bone > show all bones. And repeat the process until the joints are good.

Why can't I just hide the bones and still be able to manipulate the bones??? It's hide bones not hide and disable bones ffs. Why does the positon snap back when I change to other tools can't that be an extra button? This workflow is really really bad, it's so bad it pisses me off.

[Víctor Paredes]

With this checkbox you can hide all the construction paths and continue working


With this one you can change the way any layer is previewed. If you uncheck paths in a bone layer, the bones won't be visible unless the bone layer be selected (so you can select the content inside a bone layer without seeing the bones).

[mystd]

Thank you so much you're a life saver! I would have never found that. The tooltip even sais show curves I would have thought it was only about the lines between the points.

It's still a bit annoying though since it also disables the lines between the points which I want to edit.

[Lukas]

I agree it would be valuable to be able to hide only the curves or only the bones. Instead of always either all or nothing.

Sometimes I need to see the bones while animating, but maybe with half opacity or something, as they can really block the view. Hiding them completely is sometimes a bit crippling.