Script for “bip” bones?

[Jelli]

First: are “bip” bones necessary for compiling a studioMDL (SFM) model? Will I *need* my hand named bip_hand, for example? And are there any scripts that will mass switch Mixamo bone names to bip bone names? Or blender bone names to bip bone names?

[xdshot]

You don't have to name

[Jelli]

Not that I doubt you but I need a second opinion cuz some things are really twitchy about it and I’ve heard that this is a detail that gets in the way.

[Kumquat [Velbud]]

The naming convention of bip or ValveBiped are a 2 of the 3 major ways SFM recognizes naming conventions. We use bip so that we dont need to change lines in a script to recognize the bones and organize them accordingly. You are welcome to write in the style of blender, such as Head,Arm.L, etc, but you are just leaving some more work for later. It's not that it will cause problems but it may be a little weird to use.

[Jelli]

so... is there a Blender script that will recognize bones and rename the bones to ValveBiped format?

[Kumquat [Velbud]]

I don’t think so. You can make a script if you know python to recognize and rename anything with certain keywords into the new name you want, but you need to known Python and generally this isn’t the most useful script and you can manage without it. Just rename them, don’t waste your time unless you know how to program this script.

[Jelli]

makes sense. someone should make a script that someone could copy/paste into the text editor for mixamo rigs. thanks.

[Kumquat [Velbud]]

Originally posted by Jelli:

makes sense. someone should make a script that someone could copy/paste into the text editor for mixamo rigs. thanks.

Don't let this stop you tho. You could work without it. Give this a lookie:
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/69505/renaming-bones-with-python
Just google "Blender Script Bone Renaming" or of that sort and you should get some information about how people have done it. Just understand how programming works.

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renaming the bone is not work and cause bone to break.