From the course: Animating 2D Characters: Harmony to Unity

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Game bone deformers

Game bone deformers

- [Instructor] A powerful feature in all versions of Toon Boom Harmony 12 are game bone deformers. Now this is especially helpful for keeping file sizes down as you can deform and distort drawings instead of always having to create new ones. I'm gonna show you how to use the game bone deformers by working on the front arm. So simply zoom in here. And I'll go up on the top of my view area and I'm gonna use the deformation panel. Now if you don't see this, just simply right click in this area and make sure you select deformation. So what I'm gonna click on is the rigging tool and it's a little icon that has a wrench as well as a hammer and if I look now in my tool properties there are several options, there is automatic mode, there is bone mode, curve mode, envelope mode, as well as game bone mode. Now if you're using Harmony Essentials, what you'll see is only bone mode and game bone mode. So what I wanna select is the game bone mode and what I wanna do now is make sure I go to the…

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