Maya 2013 - Skin Weighting Armor

riuthamus

For the sake of understanding this I have simplified the mesh and wish to show you what is going on:



This is what I have. So when I skin bind I select the gorgane, then i select the belt, then i select the root bone and click skin > smooth bind



This is the result I get from maya when I do that. I can go in and paint weights all day long but when I export it and go into our game this is what I see:



So the question is, is there some method I need to be using other than skin binding two mesh objects to one bone? If that is how it is normally done than it means it is the game engines fault and not me doing something stupid in maya ( at such a time I would go to another forum and post this there ). Again any thoughts or ideas would greatly help as i am at a loss right now.

gray

try setting the pivot for the belt at the world origin, ie xyz(0,0,0). then skin and export etc.

riuthamus

That would have been a logical step. Sadly it seems that is not the case. Exported and still got the same result.

Am I to assume that what I was doing with skin binding is the correct method for exporting multiple objects with one bone? Would a video of what I am doing help?

gray

did you freeze the transforms also. so everything has no translate rotate values etc. and delete history.

riuthamus

oh damn... i was in such a rush I forgot to do that... lol thanks ill try that now. You have been most helpful.

**EDIT** That was it! You are the most amazing man! thank you

gray

your welcome. :thumbup: