My Bones Aren't Where I Put Them!

Lucky13guy

I'm making a house for Daz, and I'm rigging all the windows and doors with bones. I also rigged the blinds with a single bone, just to make them selectable, then I created morphs and morph controllers to open and close them, and rotate the blades of the blinds.

Anyway, some time this morning, I did something that caused all of my bones to move from where I put them. I don't know if I saved it weird (I did save as a scene so I wouln't have to "save as" every time), or if it has something to do with my controllers, but all of my bones just magically moved. I started with a single bone, obviously, then I created a child bone for each wall of the house. From those child bones, I created a child bone for each window, door, and set of blinds on that particular wall. This took me several hours because A) I'm fairly new to rigging, and B) I'm working on a laptop with a very small screen. Now, my hours of hard work, which I was honestly pretty proud of, have been for naught. All the bones are still there, but all of my "grandchildren" bones have all run back to their parents, and their parents have jumped to their original Y-axis locations.

Does anyone have any ideas what may have caused this? I tried reverting to an older save of the file, but the bones won't go back to where I put them.

It might be worth noting that I'm currently battling some serious problems with my laptop screen just randomly going black and having to do a hard restart before it works again, and it did happen at one point this morning while I was working on my house. That's a whole other story, and I've tried a bunch of different things to try and fix it with no luck, but if anyone has any ideas on that, I'm all ears.

Thank you!

UPDATE: I found an older save (one of the first of my first saves of the day) that had all the bones in their correct places, so that saved me a bunch of time, but I'm still curious as to what I did that may have caused this if anyone has any ideas. Thanks!

crosswind

It seems that you've made proper riggings but have you done Memorize Rigging and Save Figure / Prop asset after having rigged them ?

And maybe you happened to wrongly do the actions of Memorize Rigging and Restore Rigging ?

Lucky13guy

crosswind said:

It seems that you've made proper riggings but have you done Memorize Rigging and Save Figure / Prop asset after having rigged them ?

Nope. I have not done that. Honestly didn't realize I needed to. Lol. Makes sense, though, since you gotta do it if you create a morph for a Genesis character. 

crosswind said:

And maybe you happened to wrongly do the actions of Memorize Rigging and Restore Rigging ?

That would certainly be possible if I had tried to memorize and restore rigging.

Thanks for the insight! I'll see what kind of trouble I can get into now. Lol.