For V and NPC - Rig deforming

A short tutorial on how to modify your V's body by resizing bone shape.

Summary:

Published: Oct 12 2024 by @chris Last edited: Oct 12 2024 by mana vortex

This guide will show you how to create a custom rig, based on BODY SHAPING - Tutorial.

Wait, this is not what I want!

• If you want to learn what a rig even does, check Armatures: .rig files

• If you want to create custom poses instead, check Poses/Animations: make your own

Requirements:

Wolvenkit	>= 8.17.1 stable | nightly (install guide)
Blender	5.0
Plugin version	1.8.0

Level of difficulty:

Medium - you should have some general knowledge of Blender and Wolvenkit

Setting up

1. Create a new Wolvenkit project

2. Find an add one of the following files (the correct one for your body gender):

femV:  base\characters\common\base_bodies\woman_average\t0_000_wa_base__full.mesh
mascV: base\characters\common\base_bodies\man_average\t0_000_ma_base__full.mesh

Add it to your project

1. Export it from Wolvenkit. Use the following settings:

   • Mesh Export Type: WithRig

   • WithRig settings: Select Rig -> woman_base_deformations.rig

Blender

1. Import the .glb that you just exported into Blender:

1. You will see V's body: this is your immediate preview.

2. Enable and select the armature in the side bar panel:

1. Switch the viewport to to Pose Mode ( at the top left)

2. You can now select and scale individual bones.

Select the bones tab, select the bone you want to edit, and scale.

• Generally you want to scale bones that do not effect other bones. Joints, or those parenting other bones can break the mesh in game. Rotation and location generally breaks things.

• In my testing, Thigh_1_JNT isn't worth the hassle, looks fine in blender but always broke for me in game. (if someone has a solution for this please let me know)

• Since you are simply using blender to get a visual on what you are changing, you technically only need to edit one half of the body.

Importing the changes into Wolvenkit

This is currently a manual process. In the future, the toolchain will let you do this automatically — but we aren't there yet.

1. Add the required .rig files to your project (the second file is for first person perspective):

femV:

base\characters\base_entities\woman_base\deformations_rigs\woman_base_deformations.rig
base\characters\entities\player\deformations_rigs_wa\player_woman_base_deformations.rig

mascV:

base\characters\base_entities\man_base\deformations_rigs\man_base_deformations.rig
base\characters\entities\player\deformations_rigs_ma\player_man_fpp_deformations.rig

1. Open one of the files in the CR2W editor and find the BoneTransforms array

2. Find the bone that you scaled in Blender:

1. Here, we copy the values from Blender' s BoneTransforms tab.

Z and Y axes in Blender are flipped compared to Wolvenkit, so flip those values when inputting.

1. You need to do this for both sides of the body, so find the corresponding bone &#xNAN;If the name of your bone ends with _r, the corresponding bone ends with _l, and vice versa

2. Save your changes

3. Open the other file in Wolvenkit, and repeat steps 2-6.

Testing

1. Before packing your mod, delete the .mesh file that you exported in step 1. Your mod should only contain files with the extension .rig.

2. Hit the Install and Run button on the Wolvenkit toolbar

3. Start up the game

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Tada! if you did everything right then you can now cosplay as your favorite ant.

Peak female form.

Thanks for reading hope it worked -Chris

How to make your rig for only V (or a specific NPC)

So you got the rig edit working, but you may have noticed it applies to almost all female characters in game, not just V. This is because we edited a base game file that's shared by lots of characters including V, and by replacing it, made a "global" rig. If a global rig is what you wanted, you can pack your mod as is.

If you want to make your mod specifically for V or a certain NPC, or make it an equippable item, see tutorials below:

• For V or NPC - How to make a rig mod

• For V - How to make Equippable Rig mods

Troubleshooting

My rig edit isn't showing when I look down in first person!

Any changes you made to bones in the third person rig, you must also make to the same bones in the first person rig, or else your rig edits will only show in third person. (You must edit them separately, you can't just duplicate the third person rig and use it to replace first person.)

My rig edit isn't showing up!

• Disable (remove) any other rig edits

• Check if your mod's .archive file has been installed to the correct folder: Cyberpunk 2077\archive\pc\mod

• Make sure that it comes first in the load order by prefixing its name with a #