Thrust Attack - Part 1

[MattyUK]

Hello. I recently moved my rig if Blender 4.0 and I have lost all of the rig layers in the N settings. How can I fix this? I have researched it and nothing I have tried has fixed it.

[BH67]

Although I haven’t done this course yet and therefore can’t help more directly, I’ve read about this problem before, and I’m pretty sure it has to do with the underlying python files getting mismatched and no longer pointing to the resources they’re supposed to (analogous to the infamous magenta texture for missing files).

Edit: I managed to find the original post. If FedPete’s solution doesn’t work, have a look at the link I put there, as it connects to several other possible solutions:

Not Showing Rig Layers

Hello, if someone can help, it would be greatly appreciated. In this lecture (link to lecture is below) Grant shows the rig layers on the menu sidebar. But when I open up my sidebar menu, none of the rig layers are showing. (Even when I select all the bones/rigs). I have included screenshots. [Screenshot 2023-12-17 173610] Link to lecture:

[NP5]

Rig Layers were replaced by bone collections in Blender 4.
Might be an idea to stick to the same version of Blender as the course if it proves a problem relating the layers to the new collections.

[BH67]

Aha! Thanks to @Dwayne I finally found this post again. We should have a solution to this Rig Layers problem now. Try this:

Rig Layers

Thanks for searching that out. It worked. I can stop going crazy now (for the moment anyway). The steps, in essence are: open the 3.x file in 4.x and select the metarig. In the data properties for the metarig, you should see “Bone Collections”, which contains very generic names for the layers. In the Rigify section of the metarig data properties, there should be a button to “Upgrade Metarig”. This should populate the Bone Collections with the names of the (formerly) layers. Layers ar…