max rose

To your first point, I put in an RFE a while ago for the same thing. Kodra’s setup looks awesome though, I’ve always loved viewport interfaces.

To your second question, yes the dynamic parenting option is great, but when working with ik there’s an inherent flaw. At the moment (not sure if this will change in the future) the ik controls do not have a proper arc when you animate them in fk - they move in a straight line from point a to b. That scrubs the principle of animation that objects should move in arcs. While this functionality is amazing, it’s still not quite ready for an ik setup.

Correct me if I’m wrong, it looks like you’re trying to recreate your apex rig after setting a new pose in the animate state.

If this is what you’re doing, it’s better to set this up within the skeleton creation, and pose your skeleton using a rig pose. You take the output of that rig pose, and pipe that into your pack folder. It’ll retain all of your joint information, so your rig will be set up automatically.

This allows you create something of a template rig that you can use anytime you want.

“Properties” is a dictionary. It’s sort of a nested dictionary, so there’s no way to view it outside of the geometry spreadsheet. I’m not in front of my comp right now, so I might get the node names wrong, but properties can be adjusted before the apex rigging process with a Adjust dictionary node, or During the apex process using a component script with a dict::build node.

I go a little bit into that process in this video, at around the 10 minute mark: https://youtu.be/c1XkJoj0eBE?si=065SLWCuIY6ktpT6 [youtu.be]