Shape modeling queries

[ubermensch76]

XSI seems to have a weird blendshape work flow.

But anyways my question is , Do I have to model the head and the body separate, apply shape keys to the head and then weld it to the body for skinning or shall I just go ahead and apply a cluster to the head vertices ( which is part of the same mesh as the body ) and not worry about performance overheads since XSI will just calculate the shape keys only for the selected Cluster and ignore the rest of the mesh ( in this case the body ) ?

Thanks

[mdee]

XSI seems to have a weird blendshape work flow.

But anyways my question is , Do I have to model the head and the body separate, apply shape keys to the head and then weld it to the body for skinning or shall I just go ahead and apply a cluster to the head vertices ( which is part of the same mesh as the body ) and not worry about performance overheads since XSI will just calculate the shape keys only for the selected Cluster and ignore the rest of the mesh ( in this case the body ) ?

Thanks

Cluster should do just fine.

[ubermensch76]

Got it,.

Thanks !

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