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[3DS Max] Skin Modifier - Voxel Mapping doesn't work on "Shelled" or "Closed" surfaces?

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Hello, I was hoping someone could shed some light on an issue I'm having in Max 2022+

In Max, whenever I close or shell a model, like say bandages around a characters arms, the Voxel in Skin modifier stops working or gets the wrong weights.

I tried using Heatmap instead, but that doesn't work either, it takes almost several minutes to process the skin and won't fully get it right (as in un-skinned vertices).

Basically the Skin will force the whole of the model to rig itself to the lowest bone origin (if hand or foot is the last bone, it will rig the whole mesh to that part). Removing bones doesn't solve the issue.

I even tried basic shapes, like a cylinder around a leg, as soon as a shell modifier is set, any attempt at using the Skin Modifier (old, fresh or even custom plugins ones) will stop working properly.

The only solution I found was to use Skin Warp, but that has it's own set of issues (breaking the rendering/material of the model, need to have normals locked, etc).

I can post a quick video if needed, but I was hoping in the meantime someone knew of a way to bypass this bug in Max, or if there is a way to get the old skinning tools back that did work in the past.


EDIT: Here is a Video if anyone knows a fix to this bug, although I have to say, I'm surprised with all the Cloth stuff out there nobody noticed this?

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