Animated sequences, effects and standalone bonemerge tool

[Charcoal112]

1. Option to play animated sequences on bonemerged and parent models.
2. Option to add effects to the specific bones
3. Standalone bonemerge tool
4. Option to unbonemerge prop and swap it to the previously bonemerged bone position (and rotation)
   4.1. XYZ (pos,rot) modifiers (in case if it can't replicate exact postion)

5. Disable draw of the specific bonemerged prop with a console command
   5.1) Option to give a name to the bonemerged prop and control it with a console command
   5.2) tool_tree_edit prop01 disable_draw\enable_draw (??) (it's can be really useful when you need to holster and unholster weapon in animation)

[vlazed]

1. This could work, maybe as a feature for the model tree. This will probably be an interface to the Animated Props entities, since those only allow animated sequences to work when bonemerged
2. I think you mean particle effects for specific bones. You could do this with Advanced Particle Controller; you can right-click on a part of the model, and it will spawn a prop with the particle effect of your choosing, in the spot that you wanted. There's a bit more flexibility to the position and orientation of the particle if you use the physgun or Ragdoll Mover, compared to locking it specifically to that bone
3. The workshop doesn't really need another bonemerging tool.
4. See above point. You could probably achieve this with Advanced Bonemerge Tool as it allows you to copy bone offset settings
5. You can also achieve this with the Color Tree, but certainly you want control over the transparency, hence the toggle draw command. Although it would achieve your needs, this feature may be superseded by Stop Motion Helper's ability to animate bonemerged props, as that would give you another way to control the transparency of props. It becomes unnecessary work to add in a feature that will become obsolete.

It's uncertain when the workshop version of Stop Motion Helper will get an update. For the fifth point, I've added animatable bonemerged props in my unofficial version of SMH, as well as some other features. Perhaps this version could give you that ability to control transparency?