Battle Brawlers

A Dota 2 custom arena brawler in early development.
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Blender control rig

Phantom Assassin Persona control rig

Built to the same standard as the Mars rig: the Persona's game skeleton is never changed, the rig drives it through constraints, and one .blend holds everything an animator needs. Her glaive has one Grip per way she holds it, and her dagger can move between sheath, hand and world.

Requires
Blender 5.2
Updated
Size
47.5 MB
Gumroad link coming soon

The same rig standard on Phantom Assassin's Persona, ready for new animations.

  • Control rig with its own sidebar tab, button picker and picture picker
  • About 13 of the Persona'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.

Glaive and dagger

The glaive has an Idle and a Fight grip; the dagger moves between sheath, hand and world, with a Throw grip.

Hair, cloth and armor

Chains for the hair and cloth and controls for the armor plates, in their own groups.

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 the Persona with a box on every control.

Pose library

Poses taken from the game animations, ready to apply, apply flipped or blend.

  1. 1

    Get the rig on Gumroad: one download holds the .blend and the guide in English and Vietnamese.

  2. 2

    Open the file in Blender 5.2. Choose Allow Execution so the sidebar tab can run; the rig itself works without it.

  3. 3

    Press N and open the PA Rig tab: start from a game animation or a pose.

  4. 4

    Animate only the coloured controls, at 30 fps from frame 0, one action per move, facing the Front view.

  5. 5

    Save and send the .blend back: the move goes into the game from it.

What you get

Rig (.blend)35.1 MB
Animator's guide, English (PDF)6.1 MB
Animator's guide, Vietnamese (PDF)6.2 MB
Gumroad link coming soon

All hero models, textures and some animations belong to Dota 2 and Valve Corporation. Non-commercial fan project.

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Blender control rig

Mars control rig

Requires: Blender 5.2

Animate Mars for Dota 2: a full control rig on top of the game skeleton, which it never changes, so every move stays game-ready.

  • 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
View details →Gumroad link coming soon