better weighting tools for skinning

[seajackal]

Hi,

How about a better way to manipulate shared influences of bones over the shape, and the falloff of the influence as well, to give a smoother transition.

I have noticed that when manipulating point by point the influence is 1 or 0, it would be cool to assign per bone weight to the points based on percentage,

thanks,

Juan

[Genete]

This feature is already implemented. Try to set the Bones to "Flexibind" (BOne layer options->Bones tab). Then increasing or decreasing the bone strenght you obtain more or less relative influence.
It also works for Region binding but the point must be covered by the bone strength area of the bones that you want to have influence over the point.

Very cool indeed.

-G

[heyvern]

I have noticed that when manipulating point by point the influence is 1 or 0

Are you talking about point binding? Point binding only binds 100% to a bone. If you want bone influence "falloff" you have to use region or flexible binding as Genete mentioned.

I only use region binding myself. With flexible binding ALL bones effect ALL points. Even a tiny bone on the other side of the screen will influence points on the other in a tiny way. I prefer to have precise control.

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Another trick to extend a bones strength in "odd shapes" or irregular areas is to add additional smaller "extender" bones as children of another bone.

You can move these little offshoot extender bones away from the parent bone on frame 0. These small (or any size) bones can be placed anywhere and will translate and rotate exactly like the parent. This can basically create completely free form organic bone strength shapes of any size and position.

Another aspect of this is to put children bones right on top of a bone increasing it's strength without increasing the strength weight or size.


-vern

[seajackal]

Thanks for the reply guys.

that small bone method sounds like what I need,

I'll give it a try

cheers