Updating Skeleton With New Bones

Development Character & Animation
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On the latest build, 4.12.

I added an extra bone to my skeleton to act as a simulated “jiggle” bone, however updating the skeleton by importing a mesh with the new bones seems to be very buggy. Several times I have lost all my work and had to re-import everything again, all animations and whatnot.

At any rate, whats the proper workflow for adding bones? Or is it just a bees nest and I need to try my hardest to design ahead and never add more “jiggle” bones?

Thanks guys!

EDIT: An example of a bug, is that sometimes adding a new bone would cause several bones to permanently ‘zero out’ their position to his feet for some reason, breaking animation.

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Problem Fixed.

The issue was that the preview mesh didn’t have those bones weighted to any verts so they did not display correctly.

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I know this was written a long time ago, but could you explain what you mean by this?

I might be having a very similar issue, what do you mean about bone weights on verts in preview mesh?