What do you need to know about mesh construction?
This document covers: the importance of joint placement, creating a low res mesh to weight and transferring those weights back to the highres, additional time saving tools for weighting and mirroring weights, and other useful tips and information. Table of Contents Mesh Construction for Deformation – Even spans mean even weighting
How to apply weights to a painting rig?
Painting Weights Process – Apply the skin – Calisthenics (Range of motion) on the rig – Viewport Setup – Painting Weights – Process – Painting Weights – Tips Additional Tools and Processes – djRivet – Weight Hammer – Mirror Skin Weights Settings Additional Tips
Can a polygon mesh be used as a bind pose?
Only supported for polygon meshes. Lets you set whether you want to allow multiple bind poses per skeleton. This option can be useful if you are binding multiple pieces of geometry to the same skeleton. When on, you can bind the separate pieces using different bind poses for each.
Which is better hippydrome mesh or quad mesh?
If a character is going to have simulated elements, such as a t-shirt, than having the underlying body mesh with evenly spaced, quads will be less troublesome for the solver. Again, the hippydrome mesh is a solid example:
What’s the best way to smooth weight in paint?
Smooths weights by painting the average resulting weight from all weights under the brush. Smudges weights by grabbing the weights under the brush and “dragging” them. This can be imagined as a finger painting tool. Applies a linear/radial weight gradient; this is useful at times when painting gradual changes in weight becomes difficult.
Why is painting weights and skinning so difficult?
Painting Weights and Skinning: A Straighforward Approach – Kiel Figgins Painting Weights and Skinning: A Straighforward Approach Kiel Figgins – 3dFiggins.com Introduction Most of the perceived difficulty of painting weights comes from frustration of one or more of the following: The mesh wasn’t created to deform The joint placement was off
How to find the weight of a paint brush?
Painting Weights – Tips-Avoid using Substitute, stick with Replace/Add/Smooth on the Paint Weight Brush options. Substitute can oddly disperse weights between joints. -Right clicking on joint and using a marking menu to select the ‘paint weight’ option is typically faster than trying to find the same joint in the paint weight joint list.