bip bones

[Jelli]

Do the bones in a character model have to be named “bip_bone” (as the SFM base characters are) before exporting to dmx?

[Zappy]

No, but it's sort of recommended, as controls (bones and flexes) not listed in (by default)
-/SourceFilmmaker/game/platform/cfg/sfm_defaultanimationgroups.txt will show up in the "Unknown" group by default, not the "Body", "Arms", "Legs", et cetera groups. In addition, IK-rigging scripts and such are normally based on bone names, so if your bone set-up is right, but with weird bone names, IK-rigging scripts might not work despite working with other bone names (such as the bip_X format).

TL;DR: No, but it's sort of recommended.

[Jelli]

is there any way to rename bones without doing it all individually? (I'm a bit lazy and there are like 60 bones).