Copy cluster weight over to a bone

[Garciaone]

Im sure there is something that will help you over at creativecrash.com.

However depending on what your doing with the clusters, the effect probably wont look exactly the same when you transfer it to joints, as joints use weight normalization , opposed to the layering effect that cluster use.

Im not sure just how much it will make a difference, but i think its something that needs to be thought about first.

[jornp]

Im sure there is something that will help you over at creativecrash.com.

However depending on what your doing with the clusters, the effect probably wont look exactly the same when you transfer it to joints, as joints use weight normalization , opposed to the layering effect that cluster use.

Im not sure just how much it will make a difference, but i think its something that needs to be thought about first.Thanks for your reply :) I've looked around on creativecrash, and I've found some that looks interesting, but none that can do what I want :shrug:
I've actually tried to do this manually, I didn't notice any difference on the joints oposed to the clusters, but thanks for pointing that out :)

[Garciaone]

Yeah i believe it will be apparent if say you have two clusters that share common vertex's, say cluster A and cluster B both affect vertex 4. If the weighting on both clusters is set to 1, or 100%. then when both clusters are moved at the same time. The vertex will move twice as much effectively. 100% of cluster A's transform and 100% of cluster B's transform will be applied to vertex 4. since both clusters are transformed in the same way.... the vertex gets transformed effectively double as much...also known as double transformation.

Now lets say we move this over to joint world. This same situation will only be repeatable with weight normalization turned off. Because normalization will mean that the total amount that the vertice can be deformed (100%) is going to be distributed between the joints that effect it. So with both clusters effecting the same vert at 100% ... their joint equivelents could only effect the same vert at 50%.

Hope that makes sense , i forgot about the ability to turn off normilization. Which in theory will fix such a problem

[jornp]

Ah I see, that makes sense :)

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