how smooth

[Rudity]

Id animate it without the smooth.

As well as uv map it unsmoothed..
Your texture shouldn't stretch much if you kept it all quads. If you have alot of tri's and 5+ polys your texture will stretch in those places when you smooth.

When I animate I use a proxy object that somewhat resembles my character. I just parent the proxy to the skeleton that way it is fast for animating because it doesn't have to calculate the skin deforming.

So for uv mapping you could uv map the 1 smoothed object. Then smooth it after.. That would pretty much stop the stretching because it would be mostly quads from the first smooth..
But Ive never done that..

Yeah use a proxy object for animating..

Ok hope this helps..
If you'd like more help or this wasn't specific enough just tell me and Ill try to elaborate.

Later
Rudity

[iC4]

to animate with the proxy object sounds good, also the texturing ;)

but how to you connect then the highpoly object to the proxy? So that it will render the highpoly.

[Rudity]

You could just hide the high poly mesh.
Or put it on a layer and make it invisible.

Thats what I do.
The proxy and mesh are pout onto the same skeleton.

:beer:
Rudity

[iC4]

so you do it like this?

1. make the model
2. uv map it
3. duplicate it
4. smooth the model with the uv maps
5. bind low and high poly to skeleton (and weight the high poly)
6. hide high poly and animate low poly?


or am I wrong?

:shrug:

[Nicool]

You'll find here a new script which is realy useful for mapping related to the PolySmooth

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/coyhot/Code_SmoothUV.htm

[Rudity]

Originally posted by iC4-
so you do it like this?

1. make the model
2. uv map it
3. duplicate it
4. smooth the model with the uv maps
5. bind low and high poly to skeleton (and weight the high poly)
6. hide high poly and animate low poly?


or am I wrong?

:shrug:


Bind the low poly, then smooth on top of the bind.
It works pretty nicely. Thats the way I do it.
I uv map, bind, and blendshape my low poly.
Then animate with the proxy on the same skeleton as the low poly mesh.
Before I render I smooth it as much as I need.

as long as the smooth is the top thing in your history it'll be fine.

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