Activating Bones

[khanz1]

Have made a character and am trying to attach bones. I place the bones and child bones with no problem and activate them. But when I go to test the bones by rotating them, The character model does not seem to be effected. The bones move, but the character does not.

[RebelHill]

first, are the bones a child of the mesh that they're supposed to affect... second, did u rest them (done by selecting them, and pushing r)

[khanz1]

That would be the part I missed. I just opened the property window and checked activate for each bone.

[SplineGod]

Activating bones and Resting bones arent exactly the same.
Resting the bones as Rebel mentioned does 2 things:
1. Determines which vertices are effected by which bones and to what degree.
2. Activates the bones.

Make sure that you first select all your bones and h it the r key first.