Re: Copying vertex weights

2013-09-24 Thread David Gallagher 


Not exactly your need here, but make sure you're fully aware of GATOR. 
Transferring of skinning, maps, shapes is very powerful in Softimage.


On 9/24/2013 9:41 AM, Sergio Mucino wrote:

I've got a simple question regarding skinning/binding in Softimage.
A thing that I require to do quite often is to copy the weights from 
one vertex on  the mesh, and paste them on multiple vertices on a 
different mesh. Assuming both meshes already have the appropriate 
clusters, weightmaps, and deformers assigned, I'm wondering how to 
achieve this.
I looked for a "Weight Copy" tool in SI, and didn't find one, so I 
turned to Google. I was able to find a tool that supposedly does this 
(SA_SetPointWeights), but for some reason, It's not working for me. I 
select the 'source' mesh and launch the tool, where I can select it, 
but for some reason, it cannot find the Weight Map, even though it is 
there (I've attached a screen capture included below...)



If anyone is familiar with this tool, do you know what's up with it?
Otherwise, I'm open to any other suggestions around how to copy/paste 
vertex weights. I don't have much time to script it myself right now, 
and I haven given the GEAR tools a try yet because I need to ask IT to 
change my machine's environment to reference their scripts, but if 
that toolset has tools for this, I can push the "please get it done" 
button to be able to use them.

Thanks for any suggestions!

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Lead Rigger
Modus FX


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Re: Copying vertex weights

2013-09-24 Thread Martin 
I'm not familiar with that tool, but Weight Map is not the same as Envelope
Map.
It seems that this tool only works with Weight Maps and you have an
Envelope Map in your object so I think it won't work unless you edit the
code.

I think there was something like that in the Blur Tools. Maybe you could
google that.
I also think SoftMonkey Envelope Tools had an envelope point copy thing.

Haven't used SoftMonkey or Blur Tools in a while though.

Martin
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Re: Copying vertex weights

2013-09-24 Thread Martin 
I think you can partial gator since 2013 (I'm stuck with 2011 in this long 
project so I'm not really sure)
But still gator needs you to have your points in the same global position to 
copy their weights accurately.
So if you have your bones and meshes in a different global space and different 
polygon shape but same bone names, then it won't work, you'll need scripting.

Martin
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> On 2013/09/25, at 2:56, Emilio Hernandez  wrote:
> 
> Here is a tutorial on Gator.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcGwvc2VCkk
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2013/9/24 Sandy Sutherland 
>> SA_Setpointweights was written by Simon Anderson and is for normal weightmap 
>> manipulation, not envelope weight stuff.
>> 
>> As Dave pointed out - Gator is a good place to start.
>> 
>> S.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2013/09/24 5:41 PM, Sergio Mucino wrote:
>>> I've got a simple question regarding skinning/binding in Softimage.
>>> A thing that I require to do quite often is to copy the weights from one 
>>> vertex on  the mesh, and paste them on multiple vertices on a different 
>>> mesh. Assuming both meshes already have the appropriate clusters, 
>>> weightmaps, and deformers assigned, I'm wondering how to achieve this.
>>> I looked for a "Weight Copy" tool in SI, and didn't find one, so I turned 
>>> to Google. I was able to find a tool that supposedly does this 
>>> (SA_SetPointWeights), but for some reason, It's not working for me. I 
>>> select the 'source' mesh and launch the tool, where I can select it, but 
>>> for some reason, it cannot find the Weight Map, even though it is there 
>>> (I've attached a screen capture included below...)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If anyone is familiar with this tool, do you know what's up with it?
>>> Otherwise, I'm open to any other suggestions around how to copy/paste 
>>> vertex weights. I don't have much time to script it myself right now, and I 
>>> haven given the GEAR tools a try yet because I need to ask IT to change my 
>>> machine's environment to reference their scripts, but if that toolset has 
>>> tools for this, I can push the "please get it done" button to be able to 
>>> use them.
>>> Thanks for any suggestions!
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Sergio Mucino
>>> Lead Rigger
>>> Modus FX
>>> 
>>> 
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