paint weights problem

[ryguy]

If you're using maya 3, I believe you can only use Rigid binding on a SubD.

However if you're using Maya 4, it should work fine. Are you using the paint weights tool with a smooth bind?

Check out the paint weights' option box and make sure all your joints are loading up in the dialog box. Do they all appear?

~Ryan

[Carl]

Yeah, see, none of the joints appear in the paint weights option box. I am running maya 4.

[KidderD]

I had this problem a while back, unfortunately I don't have Maya in front of me, but there is an option, I beleive in the edit paint weights or something, something about disabling normalization or something. Like I said, a while back. If you disable that and then do your paint weights, your bones should show in dialog box, and then you can go ahead a reenable normalization, since you would probably want to use that.

[Carl]

I turned off all weight normalization. Nothing happened. One thing I noticed is that when I bind the skin four seperate skin clusters are created.....

[ryguy]

For paint weights to be activated, you must select your mesh (NOT bones) and go to the paint weight tool's option's box. All your joints should load in the dialog box.

Then you can right click on a joint and select the paint weights tool from the menu.

It should now work for you.

~Ryan

[Mandrake]

You're probably in component mode. Switch to object mode.

[dmcgrath]

If I right click on a joint with the tool selected, then select "paint weights" I get the error "Warning: Item not found: joint 11" I think ryguy has answered it for you. You are selecting the joint and then painting weights. Try selecting the bound geometry, and then paint weights will load up right.

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