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Bake (Plot) menu

This menu provides options to bake the skeleton, Control rig, and the retargeted animation. The bake options are dynamic and they change depending on the current character state, as explained in the following table:

Character state	Bake option	Description
Character target — Skeleton Source — None HIK mode — Full Body and Body Part	Bake (plot) Skeleton	Bakes the skeleton animation on itself.
	Bake (plot) To Control Rig	Bakes the skeleton animation to a Control rig.
Character target — Skeleton Source — Control Rig HIK mode — Full Body	Bake (plot) To Skeleton	Bakes the entire Control rig animation to the skeleton.
	Bake (plot) Control Rig	Bakes the Control rig animation on itself.
Character target — Skeleton Source — Control Rig HIK mode — Body Part	Bake (plot) To Skeleton	Bakes the entire Control rig animation to the skeleton.
	Bake (plot) Body Part	Bakes the Control rig animation on itself, but only for the selected Body Part(s).
Character target — Skeleton Source — Character (local and remote) HIK mode — Full Body and Body Part	Bake (plot) To Skeleton	Bakes the retargeted animation to the skeleton.
	Bake (plot) To Control Rig	Bakes the retargeted animation to a Control rig.

When you click from the:

Bake (plot) Skeleton or Bake (plot) Body Part option, the Plot Selected Properties dialog box appears. See Plot Properties window.
Bake (plot) To Skeleton or Bake (plot) To Control Rig option, the Character dialog box appears.

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