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Autorig script
Published by Allan Brito on November 14th, 2007 in Python Scripts
The Autorig Script is a very interesting tool, which can automatically add bones and constraints to a newly created autorig-armature. It can easily setup an armature for a character.
To download the script, along with a guide on how to use it, visit this link. The author of Autorig is called Niels, and besides this Script, his web site has a lot more tools and tutorials available for Blender.
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Neat!
ooh, shiny stuff, sweet! :)
The Blender community never stops impressing me.
Great stuff! Auto rig is something to die for.
I can't wait for the next venture.
Peace.
This could actually be very useful, is the author taking requests? If it would be possible to create my own generic rig to integrate into this system, then "autorig" dozens of characters with my custom rig, that would be sweet.
Either way, systems like this are great to play with, Even if you don't end up using the rig, any free rig is great for experimenting and learning from other artists' solutions to common problems.
I didn't really understand it, (hint: make a video), but it looks interesting and I'll bookmark it to download it later on.
ToastBuster: You can already do just that :) I kept it very generic from the beginning in order not to constrain myself…
I will upload the latest version 205 tomorrow…the puppet-rig has also a new version.
Thanks,
Niels
ps.
Dion Moult: Me, makin' a video? I am in the middle of making a film called Jonah…, so, I can't some promise any instruction-video 'this week'… :)
Link results in 404
Apparently something went wrong with my previous post.
The link to this featured script is dead.
"Not Found
The requested URL /blender_scripts/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.37 Server at niels.degooier.net Port 80"
Here is the URL of Google's cache of the page; unfortunately though Google hasn't cached the images:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:VjlXAQcpcY4J:niels.degooier.net/blender_scripts/+http://niels.degooier.net/blender_scripts/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a
Anybody know when the site will be back up?
Still not working, can't get to anything…
Thanks Andrew, but I'd already checked there and only web pages appear to be cached, but not other files like the one in question.
This, by the way, is the second time dead-linking has happened with a script featured on BlenderNation. Isn't there a script repository where featured scripts could be centrally located?
Anyone have this already? Care to re-host in the absence of the author's version? Or send to me and I'll host/seed/spread it?
I wanna try it to.. When will it be up there again :(
put it up again !!! :)
sounds very interesting to me … and like someone allready said : blendernation and blender absolutely rock !! i love all of you guys which make my days better and better every day :)
the link is dead…
I have just a subdomain there and the full domainname(www.degooier.net) seems to be temporarily offline.
IAlthough I am not the owner, he told me 'bills are checked and paid'. So, my best guess is crossing some downloadlimit?
I can't do anything else than wait at the moment… :(
Niels
Why doesn't someone with the file, at least host it somewhere else temporarily.
I thought I got clever when I put this into the Wayback machine, but the same thing comes up. No results. GhooOost Page!
Niels, if you can provide myself or someone else with the files I am sure they can be hosted/mirrored until your site is back up.
Andrew,
Thanks for the offer but even the mailboxes is offline, so I can't even email…
Niels
ps.
I hope there's some solution on monday.
Niels, sorry for your hosting woes.
A free Yahoo email account takes 2 minutes to set up using nothing but your browser. You can email the files from there to any of the willing friendly folks here.
You can also upload to one of the many free file-storing services online and post a link to it here and on the blenderartists site as well.
You have many options to bypass your hosting service is what I'm saying.
Hope your site comes back up online soon. Don't forget to let us know where you put it so we can mad rush it!
The max. webtraffic of the domain is upgraded… :)
Hope it's enough.
I am gonna change the website pictures to smaller ones etc, before setting autorig205 on the site :)
Probably done tomorrow since autorig204 isn't buggy, autorig205 is more 'oops, didn't I implement that yet?'
Niels
ps.
Dooter: 'Free' Yahoo and such I consider no option, I am not selling my webspace for 'free' and don't want to bug people with gathered emailaddresses, etc…'for free'… Hey, that's me. free=free=no_strings_attached ;)
My only point was that you could easily set up an email away from your defunct hosting service and send your script to someone else to host elsewhere until you sorted things out. I was indicating the numerous options you have to distribute your script using services that actually work.
I said nothing about "bugging people" since they would voluntarily request you send your script by email to them, I'm not sure how you added that part in since you seemed to just make it up from … nowhere? Why would people be bugged by you doing them a favor and emailing them your script? I would think they'd be grateful, not annoyed, wouldn't you?
The part about "selling" your web space for 'free' makes no sense at all to me at least. No idea where that came from. You can't sell something for free, it's a contradiction in terms, right? Again I made no implication whatsoever that you 'sell' something for 'free', maybe you could clarify.
Maybe it's just a lost-in-translation type of thing going on. No harm, no foul. Someday we shall all speak Esperanto! lol
Oh, and just to top things off, the link still doesn't work. :-) Which, for some reason? Kinda funny.
Best wishes to you.
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This is what came up when I tried to open the link.
Well it seems that Niels's site was blendernationed - something like slashdotted?
Lucky me got the script (version 204) and while not everything was like expected on my 2.45 linux blender (e.g. no entry in the wizard menu) the puppet.blend is a very very nice, cool thing, worth the wait.
I can at least understand why Niels wants everything delivered from his page, and compared what big effort must have gone into this script, some days of delay don't count …. and compared how much time this script might save you, either.
Dear people,
I just checked the presents of the site myself… ;)
the correct address is:
http://niels.degooier.net/blender_scripts/
Niels
@Dooter: To cut this short; I don't want my page, to be commercialized by ads, for the sake of 'free'. I understand that you said it to help, thanks anyway ;) Youtube.com is probably one of the things I would make use of in the future…
@Aya Hu: Thanks, it was indeed 'blendernationed' ;) I didn't try it myself using Linux, but placing the script in the .scripts should place it underneath 'Wizards'…(at least for Bwin32).
Hey Niels, the site is up, must be heavy load rigth now :)
Putting the script into $HOME/.blender/scripts made it appear also. Now autorig :)
Superb stuff!
Just wondering what comes with 205?
I now have autorig205 online.
Niels
@Aya Hu:
I don't keep a record of changes.
I/you expect the script gives the same functionality/options as with Blender.
I do recall adding support for IKSolver -> limits for example…
My strategy is not 'only' to implement what I will use myself, but to implement what's offered in pythonBlender.
The site is up the bomb again. ;(
tried all the links indicated above…got all errors.
It wont work… Why? I wanted to download this file
I have been desperately trying to download your damn autorig script and .blend files - everywhere I go, I get the same error 404 — are you (the author) not competent to host this file?
I wish this would work, seems very interesting and useful. Why doesn't someone with the file upload it to an alternative website?
Where s da script ? da webpage ? must be interesting !
Looks like a neat script, but the link is dead as of 5/7/2008
You could always just upload it to Megaupload.com and put the link on here. It's free, and won't go off line, at least until you get the page back up…if you're ever going to, that is. If I could get my hands on an actual autorig script, it would save me countless hours.
-DED-
This is a really interesting looking script… but all the links remain dead.
I need the scripts,Can anyone help me? please send it to me songgzh@126.com. Thanks a lot.
Hi Niels ,I need your scripts.please send me