Blender control rig
Mars control rig
This is the rig we animate Mars with for Battle Brawlers. It sits on top of Dota 2's own skeleton and drives it through one constraint per bone, so the skeleton and skinning stay exactly as the game has them. Everything is in one .blend that needs nothing else: the rig, the game model with its textures, Mars's own game animations to start from and a pose library.
- Requires
- Blender 5.2
- Updated
- Size
- 56.0 MB
- Control rig with its own sidebar tab, button picker and picture picker
- About 13 of Mars's game animations and a pose library
- The Battle Brawlers game camera, to see a move as players will
- An animator's guide of about 21 pages, in English and Vietnamese
Rig features
FK and IK that never jump
Arms and legs switch between FK and IK with buttons that match the other set to the pose first.
Feet, fingers and face
Reverse foot with heel, tip, roll and toe; one curl per finger; chains for the beard, brows, cloth and muscles.
Spear and shield
One control per prop, held by the hand or free in the world, with a Grip button that puts it back exactly as the game holds it.
Mirror a pose
Controls follow Blender's mirror rules, so Copy Pose and Paste Pose Flipped work on the whole body.
Two pickers
Buttons laid out like the body, and a picture of Mars with a box on every control: click, Shift+click or drag to select.
Pose library
Poses taken from the game animations, ready to apply, apply flipped or blend.
- 1
Get the rig on Gumroad: one download holds the .blend and the guide in English and Vietnamese.
- 2
Open the file in Blender 5.2. Choose Allow Execution so the sidebar tab can run; the rig itself works without it.
- 3
Press N and open the Mars Rig tab: start from a game animation or a pose.
- 4
Animate only the coloured controls, at 30 fps from frame 0, one action per move, Mars facing the Front view.
- 5
Save and send the .blend back: the move goes into the game from it.
What you get
All hero models, textures and some animations belong to Dota 2 and Valve Corporation. Non-commercial fan project.
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- An animator's guide of about 21 pages, in English and Vietnamese