Bone
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Bones (also called nodes, joints, and similar names) are the mechanism for animating characters and other complex objects. Characters are generally modelled in a T-pose or similar position, and then "rigged" with bones to allow movement of body parts. In the Super Smash Bros. series, bones have a secondary important purpose: All hitboxes and hurtboxes are attached to a certain bone so they move and rotate alongside their owner's animation. For example, putting a hitbox on a character's elbow bone, and offsetting it so it aligns with the character's hand, means it will always be in the same place as the hand without having to manually place it every frame. That said, many attacks are designed with manual placement instead, often to get specific hitbox shapes when the animation is inconvenient. Such hitboxes are usually attached to a bone that never moves during animations. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl and earlier games, bones are generally coded in a character-specific order. Beginning in Super Smash Bros. 4, all the basic bones (head, arms, legs, etc.) are the same for everyone, and any unique bones (hair, capes, etc.) come afterward. This allows Kirby's Copy Ability to simply copy the code of the original character, rather than Kirby having to have his own independent version of every move. Moveset swaps tend to reveal unusual properties of bones, as they apply the wrong animations to a character. While most of this article refers to characters, every gameplay object has at least one bone, and most that aren't simple projectiles have several. For example, the movement of the platforms on the Lylat Cruise and Smashville stages are controlled via bone animation. Special bones[edit]Certain bones are used for gameplay purposes in addition to animation.
List of common bones (Smash 4 onward)[edit]The following list shows the bones common to every character since Smash 4, with their numerical index and internal codenames.
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