Skin Modifier

SyaPed

Anyone know of some good Skin modifier tutorials? I haven't been able to find anything. What's annoying me most is not being able to mask off areas by going to the editable poly and selecting the areas I want to work on like I do with physique.

tom.drin

I don't know any skin tutorial, but if you are starting with it I would recommend SkinOrDie scripts - they are very useful and provide even more comfort then physique.

Rick Stirling

Tips:

Vertex selection will allow you to select edge loops.
You can grow and shrink selections.

I usually take a big strong brush and rough everything in - you'll have a rough skin in 10 minutes.

Refine with a smaller brush, don't use blend yet. 15 minutes will get you a good first pass skin.

Remove Zero weights is great for removing not only weights set to 0 strength, but the Zero Limit allows you to set a threshold to clean up weak weighting.

Eric Chadwick

Good tips.

I also second SkinOrDie, if it still works. It has a hide command that hides the faces. Unfortunately he couldn't hide the verts themselves, but at least they're frozen unweightable. Lots of other useful stuff in there though, amazing toolset.

SyaPed

Thanks guys. I'll check out SkinOrDie, looks really good.