Symmetry Posing doesn't work for 8/8.1?

[Maneki]

I sometimes use symmetry posing and it seems to work for G9 but not for G8/G8.1?

[Thomas Larsson]

This happens because G9 and G8 use different naming conventions for bones. In G9 the bones are named like l_thigh, r_shin, etc, and Blender’s symmetry tool recognizes this notation. In G8 (and older generations) the bones are called lThigh, rShin, etc, and Blender doesn’t understand that this is left and right.

You can change the bone names with Advanced Panel > Rigging > Change Prefix To Suffix. After that you can use symmetry also on G8 characters, and poses can still be imported.

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[Maneki]

Ah, so there’s already a tool for that. Thank you.

[Maneki]

Daz importer (Advanced Setup)->Rigging-> "Change Prefix to Suffix" solves the issue.

[Alessandro Padovani]

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