OMNIA Tools Basics Panel

🧠 Performance Tools

This section is designed to improve viewport performance while working with the rig.

🔘 Toggle Simplify

Enables or disables Blender’s simplify option. When active, it reduces visual complexity (such as subdivisions or effects) to ensure a smoother experience—especially useful in heavy scenes or during animation playback.

😃 Facial Widget Layers

This section controls the visibility of the facial widget’s bone groups, making it easier to isolate specific facial regions while animating.

🔘 Show/Hide Legend

Toggles the display of the visual guide (legend) that labels different facial control groups. Useful for identifying control zones quickly.

🟦 Visibility Toggles

Each toggle corresponds to a facial bone collection. Turning them on or off shows or hides the respective controls:

• Face -Main facial controls.

• Sticky Lips - Natural adhesive tension between the lips.

• Expressions -Expression-based deformers.

• Mouth Shapes -Extra phonemes or specific shape controls.

• Lips Shapes - Direct control over the tension and volume of the lips. 

• Visemes -Phoneme-driven lip sync controls.

🔧 Widget Options – Follow Head

This slider adjusts how much the facial widget follows the head’s movement. Higher values keep the widget visually attached to the head, which helps with orientation during animation.

🦴 Main Rig Layers

This section manages the visibility of the main rig’s bone collections, organized by anatomical regions. It allows you to isolate limbs or facial areas to streamline your animation workflow.

🧠 Head

Controls related to the head and facial deformation:

• Basic Face – Main facial control layer.

• Face Deform – Bones responsible for facial deformation.

• Gaze – Eye look controllers.

• Tongue – Tongue controls.

👁 Gaze Option – Follows Head

Adjusts how tightly the eye controls follow the head. Useful for keeping the eye rig either aligned with the head or moving independently.

💪 Arms

Separate layers for left and right arms:

• Arm.L IK / Arm.R IK – Inverse Kinematics arm controls.

• Arm.L FK / Arm.R FK – Forward Kinematics arm controls.

• Arm.L Tweak / Arm.R Tweak – Fine adjustments for each arm.

• Fingers / Fingers Detail – General and detailed finger controls.

🦵 Legs

Leg controls follow the same logic as arms:

• Leg.L IK / Leg.R IK – Inverse Kinematics leg controls.

• Leg.L FK / Leg.R FK – Forward Kinematics leg controls.

• Leg.L Tweak / Leg.R Tweak – Additional tweaks for the legs.

🧍 Torso

• Torso – Main spine and chest controllers.

• Torso Tweak – Fine-tuning bones for subtle torso adjustments.

🟪 Root

The global control for moving, scaling, or rotating the entire character rig.

🕺 Pose Tools

This section offers quick access to essential tools for managing and manipulating poses during animation.

🔄 Reset Pose

Resets all bones to their rest position. Useful to clear a pose and return to the default neutral state.

🔃 Mode Switch – Toggle Pose/Object Mode

Switches between Pose Mode and Object Mode. A convenient shortcut for jumping between rig manipulation and object-level tasks.

↔️ Flip Pose

Copies the current pose from one side and mirrors it to the opposite side.

• Flip Left → Right – Mirrors the pose from the left side (.L) to the right side (.R).

• Flip Right → Left – Mirrors the pose from the right side (.R) to the left side (.L).

🪞 Mirror Pose

Copies the pose from one side and pastes it onto the opposite side without altering the original.

• Copy Left → Right – Duplicates the left side’s pose and applies it to the right.

• Copy Right → Left – Duplicates the right side’s pose and applies it to the left.

🔁 IK/FK Switch

This section controls the interpolation between Inverse Kinematics (IK) and Forward Kinematics (FK) for arms, legs, and fingers. It offers precise control over animation workflows and snapping between systems.

🔽 Left Side / 🔼 Right Side

Independent controls for each side of the rig:

• Arm IK/FK – Switch between IK and FK for arms.

• Leg IK/FK – Switch between IK and FK for legs.

• Fingers FK/IK – Blend between FK and IK for fingers.

A value of 0.0 means full FK, 1.0 means full IK. Intermediate values allow blending.

🧩 Global IK/FK Switch

Applies the IK/FK switch globally to all arms and legs at once.

🎛 Global Fingers FK/IK

Applies the FK/IK switch to both hands simultaneously.

🔄 Snap FK/IK

Automatically aligns one control system to match the pose of the other—avoiding sudden pops when switching modes.

• FK → IK – Moves IK controls to match the current FK pose.

• IK → FK – Adjusts FK controls to match the current IK position.

Available per limb and side: Left Arm, Right Arm, Left Leg, Right Leg.

↔️ Stretch Controls

This section allows you to control the automatic stretching behavior of arms and legs when using IK. It’s useful for creating exaggerated movements or keeping limbs visually connected to their targets.

🔽 Left Side / 🔼 Right Side

Individual stretch toggles for each limb:

• Arm Stretch – Controls whether the arm stretches to reach the IK target.

• Leg Stretch – Same function applied to the legs.

A value of 1.0 enables full stretch. A value of 0.0 disables it completely.