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TheRetroZombie

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« on: July 17, 2010, 02:56:36 pm »

Hello, its been awhile since I've been on these forums. I was just messing around and trying stuff. I made this character thing. It doesn't have any bones because I haven't found a proper and simple tutorial on how to skin.


Here is also 2 moprh targets.
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Re: Character
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2010, 09:14:39 am »

 Hello there RetroZombie. :)

 Cool dude. Nice morphs. The model needs work, but has potential.
 Probably most importantly would be that 'the legs and feet are too close together, which will make it near-impossible to skin anyway.
 Skinning: The art of attaching model to bones.
 So, 1st thing, after fixing the legs, is to build a skeleton.
 Section 5 of the manual covers the figure editor. Ignore building the bird, because you are dealing with 1 object, and not a number of different objects attached to thier own seperate bones. (which is what the bird tutorial is about).
 Just concentrate on the parts titled 'Building a skeleton', 'Flexible joints' and 'skinning'.
  Read the skinning section, but use the 'painted weights' option, rather than the eggy shaped oval thingys.
 That'll all be a good start.
 Lets no how you're going. Glad to help where i can. :)
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Re: Character
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2010, 01:57:04 pm »

u can also use the wieght brush tool. i find that much easier than skinning. but its to your own preference. all u do is paint the the vertecies.
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Re: Character
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2010, 04:32:52 am »

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Read the skinning section, but use the 'painted weights' option, rather than the eggy shaped oval thingys.

 Relik.  The weight brush tool is actually just another method of 'skinning'. ;)
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Re: Character
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2010, 08:50:52 am »

This looks good.
I think you should follow johnar advices.
It would help you make a good bone structure for you character :)
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Re: Character
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2010, 06:52:26 pm »

oh. then whats the other option called? i thought it was skinning but i kinda ignore it and go straight to wieght paints. im sure that works just as well if not better but i found it hard to select the points on the inner cylinder difficult to get a hold of. but with wieght painting its kind of a hassle to select verts cause it will go right through so u really cant just go on the left or right view and cover 1 leg or something cause ull cover both legs. but if i were u i would try both of them out and see what works best for u. i think they both work but its more of a preference.

and i gotta stop reading and writing to this forum while im drunk i missed ur quote twice now. i just read it after i typed all that. ☺
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Re: Character
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2010, 08:11:08 pm »

oh. then whats the other option called?...

I believe it's refrred to as "bone influence."
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Re: Character
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2010, 10:57:16 am »

The first two pictures were scary but the one in motion is cute!
I would like to see him in full body dancing, what he be look like?!
Nice try!
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Re: Character
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2010, 05:03:24 pm »

The first two pictures were scary but the one in motion is cute!
I would like to see him in full body dancing, what he be look like?!
Nice try!
yea, I haven't gave it any emotions yet. So it has that creepy serious face.
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Re: Character
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2010, 10:04:46 am »

whoa, creepy but pretty cool
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