I used the default weighting before a lot, but never again, neither Maya nor Softimage. It is much faster to have a proper weighting using the inside out method on both apps.
Wich in my case it is faster and more controlable in Softimage than in Maya. Specially by using the weight editor in Softimage, I had some funky experiences using the same in Maya. 2014/1/9 Steven Caron <car...@gmail.com> > if you do a lot of bipeds, and you have a base set of deformers with a > good naming convention. you can skin a generic biped mesh and use gator to > transfer the weights... never use default weighting again. > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Martin <furik...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Maya's component editor really sucks because of that lock thing. It >> really slow my workflow so I usually deal with the export / import to SI >> and work there my weighting. >> >> But when I can, I skin my model in Maya before sending it to SI, because >> it has a much better default weighting than SI and Maya bones are easier to >> deal with when you do game assets (and FBX convert them nicely into nulls >> when importing). With proper settings you can use the default Maya weights >> for a test model where precise weights aren't needed. SI weights are pretty >> much useless, not even for a mob or test character. You need to re-weight >> almost everything manually, and if you work with nulls, it is even worst. >> >> I haven't used yet that heat skin or whatever from newer Maya versions >> but it looks cool. (I only use old versions for work) >> >> >> Martin >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > Maya has great things for it, but binding and weighting is definitely >> not one of them. It's pretty bad, actually. Ok, rant off. >> >> >
