by Felipe-G·Workflow
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Earns its place in the Blender extensions library as a focused, lightweight bendy bone tool, with a 4.2 KB footprint and a 5.0 rating from two reviews.
The bendybones toolkit is a compact add-on from Felipe-G for working with bendy bones in Blender, extracted from the tools used at Blood Sweat n Polys. Its functions run in edit mode and can be reached from the armature context menu or from a dedicated sidebar item.
The toolkit covers two operations. To convert bendy bones to regular bones, select them and press the button. To set handles, first select the handle bone, then select the bendy bone to change a handle type.
Version 1.6.0 adds a picker for the mesh object and an option to constrain or not constrain the new segments to the original bbone, and corrects the hierarchy of new segment bones. The add-on requires no special permissions and is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. It is compatible with Blender 4.2 LTS and newer, and ranks 247 in the Blender extensions library.
the bendybones toolkit is best for blender riggers working with bendy bones who want quick conversion to regular bones and handle-type setup.
the bendybones toolkit is completely free to download and use.
The bendybones toolkit installs either by dragging and dropping the add-on into Blender, or by downloading it and installing from disk through the extensions preferences. Once enabled, its tools appear in the armature context menu and in a dedicated sidebar item. The download is small at 4.2 KB, and the add-on requires no special permissions, so setup is straightforward for anyone already running a compatible version of Blender.
The bendybones toolkit is compatible with Blender 4.2 LTS and newer. It is currently at version 1.6.0, published in January 2025. If you are running an older Blender release, check the developer's page for details before installing, since the stated compatibility begins at 4.2 LTS. The add-on ships under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later and requires no special permissions to run.
The bendybones toolkit's tools only work when you are in edit mode. Both operations, converting bendy bones to bones and setting handle types, are available from the armature context menu and from a dedicated sidebar item while in edit mode. To convert bendy bones, select them and press the button; to set a handle, first select the handle bone, then select the bendy bone to change a handle type.
The bendybones toolkit is listed as free here, and it is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. It requires no special permissions in Blender. For the current terms and any licensing details, check the developer's page. The add-on was created by Felipe-G, extracted from the tools used at Blood Sweat n Polys, and its issue tracker is hosted on GitLab.
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