Swingy Bone Physics

(Version 1.1 is now available!)

An easy-to-use, artist-friendly bone chain physics solver for Blender. Add physically based animation to hair, accessories, cloth, wires or other items you want to move around in a few clicks!

– One-click process to create physically simulated bone chains:

– Bone tied collision volumes to collide with the chains:

– Add several colliders at once in a few clicks:

– Several parameters to adjust the physics behaviour. Select several bones to put the same parameter values to all of them:

– Visual helpers with fully customizable colors in the 3D viewport:

– Several amplitude constraints profiles to have more control over the bones’ maximum rotation:

– Wind simulation to add some external motion to the chains:

– Simulation baking to standard keyframes in one click:

– A powerful curve editor to fine-tune physics parameters and wind behaviour:

If you need to bring more life to your rigged character parts/assets, Swingy Bone Physics is just what you need!

History: As I was watching several technical presentations from big Japanese studios (Square Enix, Capcom, Bandai Namco etc), I noticed that bone chains were used in a lot of productions for hair, accessories, cloth etc. However I couldn’t find an equivalent bone based solution in Blender that had everything needed so thought it could be very useful to make one!

Capcom RE2019 Technical Presentation

CHANGELOG:

The changelog can be found here