Reparenting bone is it a bug or not

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hothead
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Reparenting bone is it a bug or not

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this video well explain i cant write any more here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zd6b-i0xnQ
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It appears that you have a very very very very tiny bone that is a child of the other bone it's parented to. It is so small you can't see it but is a child of the "top" bone. When you moved that bone in the video you can see the "arrow" follows it because the small tiny child bone moves along with it.

This can happen when you are drawing bones and accidentally click without dragging creating a tiny bone.

On the bone layer, select all bones (CTRL+A on win, CMD+A on mac). With all bones selected select the bone strength tool. This will show the strength envelope around all the bones. If you have a tiny bone that can't be seen well or is hard to select it will "appear". You will see the strength envelope around that bone making it easier to see.

Another tip I advise everyone to do is to turn on "Auto name shapes and bones" in the preferences. You may never use the named bones or it may seem unnecessary but at some point you might need to select a bone or shape that is very difficult to locate or select. By having names for all bones and shapes they can be selected in the bone selection menu or in the shape menu in the style palette.

In this case you could look at the list of named bones and count the bones you see... if they don't match you have a tiny bone somewhere.

-vern
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heyvern wrote:It appears that you have a very very very very tiny bone that is a child of the other bone it's parented to. It is so small you can't see it but is a child of the "top" bone. When you moved that bone in the video you can see the "arrow" follows it because the small tiny child bone moves along with it.

This can happen when you are drawing bones and accidentally click without dragging creating a tiny bone.

On the bone layer, select all bones (CTRL+A on win, CMD+A on mac). With all bones selected select the bone strength tool. This will show the strength envelope around all the bones. If you have a tiny bone that can't be seen well or is hard to select it will "appear". You will see the strength envelope around that bone making it easier to see.

Another tip I advise everyone to do is to turn on "Auto name shapes and bones" in the preferences. You may never use the named bones or it may seem unnecessary but at some point you might need to select a bone or shape that is very difficult to locate or select. By having names for all bones and shapes they can be selected in the bone selection menu or in the shape menu in the style palette.

In this case you could look at the list of named bones and count the bones you see... if they don't match you have a tiny bone somewhere.

-vern

it was not parent to any bone but thanks anyway i just delete that bone an draw a new one
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Which bone did you delete? The tiny tiny bone or the big one you could select? If you deleted the big bone the small tiny bone is probably still there but now is not parented to another bone.

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all small bone was parent together when i remove the parent link from link i see the arrow so i delete the bone that you see the arrow on
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