What about the blendshapes?
On 6/13/2014 9:21 AM, Mario Reitbauer wrote:
For transfering those weights you can use abweightlifter.
Make a copy of your skinned objects and combine them and sew the
border edges and freeze that object.
Skin this new object to all joints (face and body).
Use the new object as destination in abweightlifter and the head only
as source and copy weights. Do the same for the body and the acording
body joints.
more steps needed then in softimage but at least it works this way.
You can still keep your seperated objects and paint on them. every
time you need a weightupdate you can just copy the weights again.
2014-06-13 16:18 GMT+02:00 Siew Yi Liang <soni...@gmail.com
<mailto:soni...@gmail.com>>:
Use edit smooth skin - copy skin weights. Its better if you make a
selection of the verts that you want to copy over as selection
sets. Not ideal, but it works. (This is scriptable)
On 13 Jun 2014 05:11, "Nicolas Esposito" <3dv...@gmail.com
<mailto:3dv...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Sorry if add a question:
Need to combine two enveloped meshes ( face and body ) and two
different rig ( facial rig and body rig ) into one
Soft workflow: First simply Parent the facial rig to the body
rig on the neck controller; then select the face first and
then the body, merge > transfer attributes ( tada! )
Similar/same workflow inside Maya is possible? reading all the
post related to Maya looks like the mesh combining is a big
deal...
2014-06-13 13:37 GMT+02:00 Gerbrand Nel <nagv...@gmail.com
<mailto:nagv...@gmail.com>>:
Thanks guys!
Not the answers I was hoping for but at least I now know :)
Love this list!
G
On 2014/06/13 12:31 PM, Mirko Jankovic wrote:
for #3 keep in mind that is NOT Scene explorer in
Softimage, nor it provides same functions so take care
there.
Nodes in Maya were always kind of labyrinth to me and SI
scene explorer was fresh air giving real overview and
control of everything in scene.
That is not something you have in Maya.
Not to mention Max's new scene explorer if anyone with
right mind would even call it like that.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Perry Harovas
<perryharo...@gmail.com <mailto:perryharo...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
And to show I am not just here to laugh, the answer
to #2 and #3 below:
#2: No, and whats more, do not fcheck while
rendering. That has always been a sure way to kill
your render. Seriously, you have to specify the end frame
to be at least 2 or 3 frames BEFORE the current frame
that is rendering in order to not crash. Been like
that ever since the beginning. Last time I checked, it
was still a bug. Of course, it depends upon the
renderer you are using, so if you are using mental
ray or (God help you) the Maya renderer, then you
cannot see it while it renders.
If you are using some other renderer with its own
render viewer, perhaps 3Delight, then you can watch
it render with that software's render viewer.
#3: You are correct, and to see more stuff, go to the
top (happily, I don't have Maya installed at the
moment, so I can't check the exact menu wording) of
the Outliner and you will see that you can enable the
viewing of more
"things" in the Outliner. It defaults to simplifying
your view (which I always hated) but you can change
that to show you every ugly little node it shoves
into your scene.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Gerbrand Nel
<nagv...@gmail.com <mailto:nagv...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hey Guys
So I'm getting into Maya, and so far it's horrible.
I realize that Maya animators must be more
passionate about 3D than me, because there is no
way I would have put up with this shit for the
last 10 years.
Rant aside, I was hoping someone could help me
make sense of a few things.
1: selecting hierarchies:
I don’t understand why Maya insists on making the
whole hierarchy green when I only select the top
node. What is the benefit of this, and can I turn
it off?
I also find that when I select multiple objects
in a hierarchy, the second last thing I selected
goes white, but the thing I select stays green.
this makes it hard to tell weather I selected the
object or not.
Am I using it wrong?
2: Is there a way to interactively see my frames
rendering? I know I can fcheck or load the
rendered frames in aftreFX, but this doesn't help
if my frames takes 20 min a frame.
3: I assume the outliner is there to do what the
explorer in soft does, but half the things in my
scene is missing. Is there a comprehensive scene
navigator where I can see everything, like we can
in the explorer?
Thanks, I'm going to stop here before I get on
the drama-lama.
G
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