skinning workflow doubt

#1

i’ve recently completed rigging one of my models and now i want to skin it… i have developed my control rig using the proxy geometry (simple geometry parenting)… now i have to skin it… I have a mid res version with 8733 polygons and a high res model with 29964 polygons… if i skin the low res one, do i have to do it again for the hi res one? when shud i smooth my character, after or before i apply all my deformations and skinning?
plz help me in developing my skinning workflow… wat steps u ppl take? thanx in advance…

#2

Hi,
You can skin the midRes and then copySkin(maya) or skinWrap (max) to the HiRes after binding skeleton to the hires mesh.
Rgds,

#3

thanx a lot Prem, I’ll surely give it a try… i was also thinking of the trying the following workflow, plz hav a luk and tell me if it’s ok…

  • skin the complete body
  • duplicate it and separate the head and rest of the body
  • bind the new meshes(the head and the body) with the same skeleton
  • copy the skin weights of the original mesh (the combined one) to the head and the body, that way, we’ll have no seam problem in the neck area and the head will be free for the blendshape generation

hope this works too, without any problem…

#4

You know what’s even easier than that? How about you don’t split the head off from the body?

I’ve seen quite a few threads of this lately, it is such an unnecessary complication in my opinion. Just keep the entire body / head as one mesh, sculpt & add your blendshapes, done.

Are you worried about slowdowns? Blendshapes are cheap! And I’m pretty sure that verts that don’t move relative to the base mesh aren’t computed anyway.

#5

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