skinning problem

Tadao215

im having some trouble skinning this character. every time i try to change the influence on a vertex it always remains red, ive tried removing the bone from the list and adding it again but it still gives me trouble. does anyone have an idea?? id really appreciate it.

Eric Chadwick

This usually means the vertex is weighted to no other bones. If you check the Normalize checkbox, then when you weight that vertex 1.0 (100%) to another bone, the current weight will drop to 0.0.

Rick Stirling

I've had a similar issue where max puts an imaginary number in the weight and then bakes it into the mesh. I'm not joking.

Bring up the weight table and see if the vert is set to something like !#00. If so, clear the weight in the weight table.

Tadao215

thanx for the help! i went along with what eric said and now its not giving me anymore trouble

Mark Dygert

Rick Stirling wrote: »

I've had a similar issue where max puts an imaginary number in the weight and then bakes it into the mesh. I'm not joking.

Bring up the weight table and see if the vert is set to something like !#00. If so, clear the weight in the weight table.

Happens to me all the time. It seems to be more common if it autosaves while I'm doing something in skin.

Glad its fixed!