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Re: 3ds Max Animation
If you're going to get into rigging, its going to get really technical really fast, you'll need to probably start learning maxscript and definitely expressions. Which is where the whole art vs programing discussion starts to weigh in. Once your animating its back to artist territory, if your not really interested in the… -
3ds Max Animation
Okay so I did a few topic searches and I got some great links but I am still struggling with concept and implementation. (btw I am using 3ds max ) Say I want to animate a high poly crazy detailed object, but want to use a lower poly dummy model for the animation process. How do I transfer the animation from the lower poly… -
Re: 3ds Max Animation
Do you mean that you want to use bones to animate a low poly mesh, then transfer that animation from the low poly mesh to a high poly mesh? If so, the Skinwrap option. ...Or are you new to animating and by "lower poly dummy model" are you asking about the bones and control rig itself? If so, you can use skin to bind your… -
Re: 3ds Max Animation
Oh yea no problem. It's good you've used other rigs. I've used biped, a lot. It is a different kind of rig from I used before it, but once I got the hang of it, it was pretty great. If you hit any snags let me know we can probably work through it, don't worry about showing off early stuff as you're learning that is… -
Re: 3ds Max Animation
Sorry for the late reply been busy with studying up and totally forgot about thread thank you guys for the information. I got layers to work as far as not crashing my system. @Vig Tried using the the optimize method and it works great thanks for the info going to go read the thread you posted now. @Ryno I was talking about… -
Re: 3ds Max Animation
If it is the same character and animation, why not just use the very same rig for both? Then there's no need to transfer animation, just toggle the visibilty of the mesh you want. -
Re: 3ds Max Animation
Ahh good. A few things about skin. When painting weights it can be helpful to turn off blend weights if you're having applying more weight to a vert and seems to be locked to a set value. If you're not a big fan of skinning with envelopes and want to do it all with paint and hand weighting, it can be helpful to shrink the… -
Re: 3ds Max Animation
My first guess would be you're using physique instead of skin. Physique was good, but it hasn't been updated since it was first introduced with Character Studio/biped Max v4. It has its perks like deformable envelopes but that's about it. Adjusting weights by hand is a total chore as you found out already =P Use the Skin… -
Re: 3ds Max Animation
I have had some time to go over a lot of the things you posted and I'm getting there at making several different cycles. I'll have those up soon. I ran into a problem today though and it has to do with rigging. I figured why waste a perfectly good thread when I could post it here. :) So beyond all greater conscious I was… -
Re: 3ds Max Animation
To transfer the weights, you use the skinwrap modifier on the new mesh, then use "convert to skin" it works pretty well. Ideally you would want to skin the high and skinwarp the low not really the other way around as it will lead to quite a bit of clean up As for the control board its been a while since I looked at…
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