Humanoid bone scaling customization

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Hello unity,

I have a custom rigged character that can map to humanoid so I am using the humanoid rig option.

I just learned how much humanoid limits the character. For example if I have a tail on my character, I can’t animate it becuase it’s not a humanoid bone. Only generic can animate the non humanoid bones.

I am unsure about the whole avatar mask with optimize transforms and toggle all. I dont think humanoid will work well.

But to my question : I want to be able to scale the bones of my character for customization with HUMANOID.

Like non humanoid bones such as tail, horns, butt etc.

I understandl blendshapes on the mesh will work but this isn’t the option I would like to go, because I have 10 different outfits that don’t have blendshapes on it.

Is humanoid that bad that we can’t scale bones somehow. Perhaps I need to have a c# script that does this.

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These you can just scale, no problem.

But you are talking about the other bones. The ones that are part of the humanoid rig. Is that right? I think the problem with these is that any changes that you make to the bone’s transform are overridden by the animation.

One thing you might try is writing a routine in LateUpdate to modify the scale each frame after the animation is applied. I have not tested it with scaling, but it works for rotation (like for when you want to do procedural animation modifications).