Ugh. Nightmares. Maya has the WORST weighting tools out there that I know of (not that I know them all, mind you). That drove me crazy. Forget to do it, and you're one smooth/flood operation away from a world of pain and suffering. It's crazy how bad the workflow is. There are things I really liked (like the Weights table, or the Weights Hammer), but the rest is just a medieval torture machine. Unbelievable.
Sergio Muciño. Sent from my iPad. > On Sep 3, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Sebastien Sterling <sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Remember to lock everything but the joints you are working on, or you will > DIE ! > > >> On 3 September 2014 21:36, Sergio Mucino <sergio.muc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Depending on what kind of joint chains you have, and the kind of topology >> you're working on, you may find that the Weight Hammer works wonders. Just >> select the vertices you want to smooth, and hammer the sh*** outta them! (I >> love using it on things like fingers... Can get those deformations nailed in >> no time). >> >> Sergio Muciño. >> Sent from my iPad. >> >>> On Sep 3, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Will Sharkey <willjshar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> honestly I have a lot of joints in this character and Im finding it >>> difficult to get even smoothing along many joints. The only way I can see >>> to do this is to 'flood' the mesh, which isnt what i want, I was hoping >>> just to paint the smooth but thats not giving me good results either. >>> >>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Rob Chapman <tekano....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> What is the issue, speed of interaction with dense geometry or complexity >>>> of model hierarchies? >>>> >>>>> On 3 Sep 2014 20:30, "Will Sharkey" <willjshar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Im attempting to paint weights on a fairly complex creature and it is a >>>>> bit of a pain. I seem to recall people saying that the built in weighting >>>>> tools in Maya aren't great. What were other options? >>>>> >>>>> I think somebody mentioned ngSkinTools and that seems pretty cool. Is >>>>> that still a top choice? >>>>> >>>>> At least the relax/smooth tool looks like it works in the ngSkinTools >>>>> demo, the built in smooth tool in Maya frustrating. >>>>> >>>>> cheers >>> >
