Skin weigting

#1

Hi,

Is there a way of saving a skin weighting profile?

I have spent a good while tweaking the skin weighting of a character and the skeleton hierarchy and topology will be the same for other characters (with just different proportions)

I would like to be able to use the skin weighting from the character I have done already and apply it to the other characters.

Cheers,

Andy

#2

Export skin weights tool. You need to have proper UVs though.

#3

You can also try plugins that allow you to save your weights without having to use the default Maya way. They either store your weights on a per vertex basis or by world position (it depends on the plugin).
I have written my own tool which is available here:

http://www.braverabbit.de/playground/?p=915.

It only stores per vertex but it’s a reliable tool and has helped me many times.

#4

Thanks goin, that looks perfect for what I want. I’ll give it a whirl and let you know how I get on!

Edit: Is the plug-in directory Program Files > Autodesk > Maya2013 > bin > plug-ins ?

#5

if you are using Maya 2012 and above there is a built method for exporting vertex based weight maps… under Animation> Edit Deformers> Export Deformer Weights

#6

Thanks, yeah I’ve recently found this. Although I didn’t realise there was a menu place for it until you have just kindly pointed out. I was accessing it through the command

cmds.deformerWeights(“filename.xml”, export=True, deformer=“skinCluster1”)

cmds.deformerWeights(“filename.xml”, im=True, m=“index”, deformer=“skinCluster1”)

#7

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