Humanoid: dynamicaly change bone length

Hi,





i must be stupid but i don't find any information about changing bone length dynamicaly.

I like mecanim because we can use any existant animation and it works well.
I know we must set an avatar by character, and we can retargeting. Humanoid animation saves rotation relative to parent only. and no rotation or scales to achieve that.

But now, i try to make a dynamic runtime character, on which you can change clothes, blendshapes (fat, thin, man, woman,..) and i want to change bone length !

How to do that with mecanim ?
I tried some things :
- change bone size : it changes the hierarchy
- add a dummy at the end of arm/leg bones. change scale of bone. set the scale of the dummy at inverse scale of the parent bone. : it seems pretty okay but when i change thigh size, the character floats in air. (do i must change root position ? ) And it thinks that those extra transforms points are not good for performance.
Or maybe, i should use "HumanBone" and "HumanLimit" thing ? But i can't find any example on the web.

Thanks for your answer

 

Up.
Nobody have this usecase ?

 

It's a very common thing but it's rather advanced. The basic technique is create child bones and those are the ones you deform. But there is a LOT more to it you need a solid understanding of rigging and bone weights to do it yourself, and you need modeling software like blender.

I suggest downloading UMA it does bone deformations like you want.