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Vilperi
07-06-2006, 09:46 AM
I'm trying to do muscles for my T-Rex character and I have some serious problems getting the skin wrap modifier to work properly. How can I get smooth deformation out of it? Theres always some part of the mesh that doesn't want to cooperate and the mesh tears and distorts. Everyone praises this modifier but I think it it's not that good. There should be somekind of paint weights tool in it to get better results.
Promineo
07-06-2006, 10:30 AM
I'm trying to do muscles for my T-Rex character and I have some serious problems getting the skin wrap modifier to work properly. How can I get smooth deformation out of it? Theres always some part of the mesh that doesn't want to cooperate and the mesh tears and distorts. Everyone praises this modifier but I think it it's not that good. There should be somekind of paint weights tool in it to get better results.

There are some problems on skin wrap modifier with some modifiers on max, and how we put on the modifiers stack, depends of the order, for example if you put a modifier over a shell modifier and then you put a skin wrap normaly it can brake, but if put under it, the anyway your problem can be simply the distance influence of the skin wrap, prove to change it.
Vilperi
07-06-2006, 05:29 PM
Yea well, i have tried to change every paramter available but those nasty cracks and distortions just change place. How important is it that the muscles fit the mesh?
PEN
07-06-2006, 09:05 PM
It realy doesn't do a great job of blending itself. You need to take care of that your self in other ways. Have a look at Maxine on the Max 8 Sample disk.
Vilperi
07-07-2006, 09:01 AM
Oh now I get it! Poly select with some soft selection:) A simple solution for a simple problem.
PEN
07-07-2006, 03:22 PM
Gota love simple:) Maxine was fun to create as I managed to get some things working that I use all the time now.
Vilperi
07-09-2006, 09:51 PM
Yea there's a lot of great stuff to learn in Maxine's rig.

By the way have you got any ideas for making skin slide over bones without any fancy plugins?
floyd1510
07-17-2006, 03:50 PM
Hey Paul,

I could not get the Maxine file in Max installed at my end, It would be great of you or anyone can post the file up here,

Thanks,

Vikram.
PEN
07-18-2006, 04:52 PM
That file comes is on the install disk for Max 8 in the samples folder. You have to do it manualy as far as I know. Just drop the DVD in and open the file right from it.
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