(solved) Display error or duplicate bones

lina.catfish

I created this – display error or copied bones structure? I'm not sure which of the two.

What I did: I created a morph that doesn't fit the standard bone structure (after some export-imports). So I used the joint editor to "adjust the rigging to shape" – and after that, it looks like this. There is a selectable new bone structure and the original structure that is not selectable, hideable or anything else.

Closing DAZ and reopening the file did not change the effect.

Does anyone have an explanation or suggestion on how to solve this?

Thanks in advance

Richard Haseltine

It isn't two figures in the same pose? What does the actual figure model look like?

lina.catfish

It is a character (G8F) in the zerroed/A pose, with a morph applied and the bones that are visible when activating the Joint Editor. I tarted with a clean scene.

Richard Haseltine said:

[..] What does the actual figure model look like?

Im not quite sure what that means. Humanoid? Female? I didn't cut off any limbs or merged them together.

Richard Haseltine

We can't see the mesh at all, I assume it hasn't sprouted an extra pair of arms in the geometry? There is a Create>Dupliate Bones command in the right-click menu, but that is nowhere near Adjust Rigging to Shape.

lina.catfish

Exactly. It has no geograft, only a morph that defines size, circumference, etc.

NorthOf45

Looks like ghost bones, the previous position of the original rigging. Memorize Figure Rigging should get rid of them, since there will no longer be a previous alignment.

If you don't really want to lose the original rigging, you can hide them in Tool Settings while the Joint Editor Tool is active. Look for Bone Ghosting at the very bottom.

crosswind

If you hit Ctrl + 9 to have Texture Shaded drawstyle, you'll clearly find Bones in red which is Bone Ghosting... Uncheck Bone Ghosting option in Tool Settings if you don't want to see them ~

lina.catfish

Yes! Because they disappeared after the ghost bone box was unchecked, I assume they were ghost bones. Thank you all!

Does that mean they're there every time and I just made it invisible? (slightly speculative of course :))

And what is their function? To switch between the original and the new if necessary?

crosswind

If you uncheck Bone Ghosting option, its status will be saved in Windows Registry, so you don't need to touch it next time unless you want to see them by checking it again ~~

In short, their function is to show you the rigging that was already momorized. So when you tweak the rigging of bones, you can check their original rigging by showing the ghost bones.