Make bones visible when playing

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I would like to have a way to draw the bones of my Skinned Meshes to the screen. Is there something in the asset store, a tutorial, or a simple way of doing this? I have searched and can't seem to find a solution.

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Answer by DoctorWhy · Oct 09, 2012 at 10:28 PM

Actually, I just came up with an idea. Instead of drawing bones, I guess we could draw a sprite where the joint is. This will actually probably be better for the tech illiterate, which is who we are sort of targeting.

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Answer by Bunny83 · Oct 09, 2012 at 10:24 PM

Here's a small script that should draw a line between all bones inside the editor. I wrote this from scratch. I haven't tested it but it should work.

 // DrawBones.cs
 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class DrawBones : MonoBehaviour
 {
     private SkinnedMeshRenderer m_Renderer;
     
     void Start()
     {
         m_Renderer = GetComponentInChildren<SkinnedMeshRenderer>();
         if (m_Renderer == null)
         {
             Debug.LogWarning("No SkinnedMeshRenderer found, script removed");
             Destroy(this);
         }
     }
     
     void LateUpdate()
     {
         var bones = m_Renderer.bones;
         foreach(var B in bones)
         {
             if (B.parent == null)
                 continue;
             Debug.DrawLine(B.position, B.parent.position, Color.red);
         }
     }
 }

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skullthug · Oct 04, 2013 at 05:21 AM 0

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This is awesome! Thank you for posting this.

Make bones visible when playing

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