The root joint shall not be skinned in a humanoid character, right? (new to rigging)

kreativ

I have a root joint (above the two hip joints) which translates/rotates all of the character cos its the parent of all the other bones. Thing is, I am skinning the character now and wondering whether i should skin something to the root or not.

Is it common practice to just leave the root as it is and not skin it?

Eric Chadwick

In my experience it doesn't matter if you include it in the skin weighting or not. Another root can be added underneath if needed.

kreativ

thanks a lot. For helping me today and always.

kreativ

also what about the skeleton created with humanik. Where the root joint is already skinned (smooth skin) but when you for example rotate it, instead of the hips moving the whole character rotates. Is it the best practice then to remove skinning on this root hip joint and assign it to the spine?