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1. Separating skinned mesh into parts for FBX export in MAYA

   

   

   Topic by pukeanddie · Mar 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   I have this rigged Giraffe in Maya. It's all weighted and ready to use, but I need to split it into pieces since the destination platform (Facebook AR Studio) does not support skinned meshes with > 20 bones. So I've attempted to split the mesh up along the neck, legs and tail - separating out each mesh component into it's…

2. Re: Separating skinned mesh into parts for FBX export in MAYA

   

   Reply by Mark Dygert · Mar 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   Copy your mesh, delete history, freeze transforms, rebind, COPY skin weights from your old mesh, delete the old mesh and see how that goes. 

3. Re: Separating skinned mesh into parts for FBX export in MAYA

   

   Reply by pukeanddie · Mar 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thank you, but I am stuck on this approach too. I have copied the mesh, deleted history on the duplicate mesh and rebound it to the same skeleton. But when copying skin weights from original mesh to the duplicated mesh It gives me an error 'Must select a source and a destination skin, or components on a source and…