Close Bone Picker is an add-on designed to streamline bone selection workflow in Armature. Animation work requires selecting bones repeatedly thousands of times. While directly clicking bones with a mouse is common practice, this method becomes tedious when selecting small adjacent bones like finger joints, and the repetitive nature disrupts concentration. This add-on was created to solve this problem. It allows you to build a custom virtual bone hierarchy independent of the actual bone structure, and navigate selection states along this hierarchy.
Beyond hierarchical navigation, it also provides Pie Menu functionality for direct jumps to specific bones. You can set up conditional branching within nodes to handle complex operations such as "select the hand bone displayed on the right side of the 3D View."
Additionally, it includes auxiliary features to enhance bone selection comfort, such as optimized transitions to Pose Mode and toggling Bone Collection visibility in the 3D View.
First, build your custom virtual bone hierarchy using the dedicated Node Editor.
After registering the hierarchy structure to your Armature, use keyboard shortcuts to perform operations.