Modifying bones in Asset with Bone shelf tool

[jim c]

Is it possible to modify bones within a Digital Asset using the Bones Shelf tool if the DA is locked? I made a simple test and it didn't seem to work, but perhaps there was a step I missed?

I'd like to have a rigging tool that has a template rig that you can "pose" with the bones tool, and then click a button and it generates a custom DA for you based on the template bone positions. Using the Bone Shelf tool allows for more intuitive manipulations than just the translate or rotate handles.

[michael]

don't use bones - use nulls

in order to use bones as a guide for rig creation you'd have to promote all of the bones parameters (well not all - but most)

if you use nulls you'll just need the Translates.