Shading problem on skinned object

Olli.

this is a skinned object (an arm)
ive animated it using bones, and now im trying to render it, but it keeps getting shaded as if it was in the default pose (arms outstretched)

the picture is taken from the viewport but it happens when rendering too (tried it with scanline and mental ray)


so, any ideas on how to get the shading to be dynamic?

Warheart

What software are you using?

Olli.

3ds max.. sorry forgot to mention it.

works fine in 3ds max 9, but im upgrading to 2011 now and its not working.

SpeCter

3dsmax obviously.

pasha_sevez

Check Edit Normals - it seems like you have some implicit normals

Mark Dygert

I've seen this happen a lot with meshes exported from zbrush... The last time it happened to me I had to copy the mesh, remove skin, create a new object apply edit poly, attach the old mesh to the new object collapse it and then skinwrap the new mesh to the old, and convert it back to skin.

For a while I thought it was something wrong with the vertex channel and tried everything to flood, fill and bake something new into it without luck, which might be another thing to look into if attaching it doesn't work.

Olli.

fixed this by slapping an edit poly modifier on top of the skin modifier..

its a lazy fix i know but i only need to render a few scenes so this will do.