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Content Type: Addon
Addon Type: Tool
Addon Tags: Build, Scenic
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1 Dec, 2022 @ 9:30am
29 Apr, 2024 @ 10:26am
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Overhauled Bone Tool

Description


The Overhauled Bone Tool is a bone tool that is able to render any model's skeleton on the screen. The current selected bone is highlighted as well, so you know its exact location.
Bone selection it's a lot easier, since instead of providing an unordered list of bones to the user, the tool shows model's bone trees in an intuitive way so that you can navigate through the bone hierarchy easily, just like in Blender and 3DS Max.

Features
  • Manipulate the position, angle and scale of any non-physics bone.
  • Ability to navigate through the bone hierarchy of any model.
  • Bones are drawn on the screen.
  • Color customization (bones, selected bone and lines)
  • Ability to scale a bone and all its children along with it, allowing for scaling entire portions of a model at once.

Instructions
  • Left click over a ragdoll to turn it into an animatable prop (you can manipulate physics bones this way).
  • Right click to select an entity.
  • Reload to select yourself.

Very useful tip that few people know about Gmod's sliders: clicking and holding the mouse button down on the white space between a text label and its slider allows for adjusting the slider's value with greater precision. Moving your mouse forward and backwards increases and decreases the level of precision, respectively.

This tool was previously known as "Composite Bone Tool" and it was a part of the Composite Entities addon, as it was necessary to make it work. However, since the new version of that addon doesn't require additional tools to work, I'm releasing this separately (minor bug fixes and performance improvements have been done).

If you liked this, check out this tool too: Composite Bonemerge Tool
Popular Discussions View All (6)
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22 Dec, 2024 @ 11:14am
Suggestions to Improve overhauled bone tool
Big John Fan #6553
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23 May @ 8:35am
Can't see ♥♥♥♥
CrowMyBars
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19 Mar, 2024 @ 7:47am
unable to operate
Zaku II (Alias WatcherZigzagoon)
133 Comments
0waterXcolour0 16 Mar @ 8:40am 
well so far i haven't needed to go that far yet, thanks for the answer man, and for this awesome tool.
kuma7  [author] 16 Mar @ 6:43am 
I don't think there's any limitations in regards to bone position (bone scale is limited to 18, though), but i had to select a maximum value for the sliders, and I reckoned 128 was reasonably high.
0waterXcolour0 16 Mar @ 6:26am 
while i was doing some posing, i noticed that the slider value is locked at 128.0 and manually adding higher values doesn't change the bone any further. is this intentional or a limitation?
Chaotic_BabyBun 2 Jan @ 2:37pm 
Thank god this addon helped me pose the ragdolls easily.
Floof 20 Oct, 2024 @ 2:04pm 
its prob is some weird error none sense

all though a friend of mine did have the same issue with the tool a few days ago and he said that his gmod didnt say it had any confliting errors i know my gmod is not showing any addon conflictions
kuma7  [author] 20 Oct, 2024 @ 12:18pm 
The game hasn't received an update since July, so it probably has something to do with your addons.
Floof 20 Oct, 2024 @ 12:09pm 
its broken

i went and turnes it into a animated prop and it did show everything but the options for the bones were not showing up saying that the selected ragdoll had no bones

my guess is some kind of garrys mod update has messed with some kind of function with it

hoping it gets fixed soon

thanks
AlexMorganon ☩ 16 Oct, 2024 @ 5:21am 
You deserve to own the whole valve bro or guys. Very nice mod, pls do not delete it
мяFunreal 15 Oct, 2024 @ 12:44pm 
The collision is not deleted. it still collides wherever the collision mesh has been moved to in these screenshots.
But i have been told from someone else in the meantime that bone posing addons do not allow translations on models with collisionjoints. So i suppose gmod itself is doing this wonky stuff. :/
kuma7  [author] 15 Oct, 2024 @ 10:03am 
The tool was primarily designed to move bones without any collision meshes attached to them. Aren't those collision meshes removed after you left-click on the model?