Skinning pre-animated weapon rig
I have a weapon which I've rigged using the Skin modifier. After animating most of the animations I discovered one of the bones ("bolt") has it's pivot in the wrong place - which unfortunately I need to fix.
If I remove the skin modifier, fix the pivot position and reapply the skin modifier the whole weapon offsets to one side. This doesn't happen if I first delete all the key-frames.
I've tried bone mode but it doesn't seem to work - presumably because dummy objects don't technically count as bones.
So my question is - is there a way to re-apply the Skin modifier or move a pivot of a bone without having to delete my animation?
Thanks for any assistance.
If I remove the skin modifier, fix the pivot position and reapply the skin modifier the whole weapon offsets to one side. This doesn't happen if I first delete all the key-frames.
I've tried bone mode but it doesn't seem to work - presumably because dummy objects don't technically count as bones.
So my question is - is there a way to re-apply the Skin modifier or move a pivot of a bone without having to delete my animation?
Thanks for any assistance.
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I've tried saving the animations, skinning and then loading the animations and the model does the same thing in a completely different direction/angle.
Aside from resetting xform, pivots and attaching to a clean box is there anything else I can do to reset the pivot/normals on the model?
make sure you set the reference frame in skin properly, resetting xforms would be sensible too.
I wasn't using Skin Pose Mode so thanks poopipe for putting me onto the right track.