And if im not doing this right, can someone help me out a bit? I am really anxious to add infantry to my mod, but everytime i get down to binding the little spacewarps, something always goes wrong and the model might have extra long stretched arms or something. Someone told me that I may just be binding them in the wrong places, so i posted these images. Can you check em and tell me if I did them right. Help is gratefully appreciated...
Wrist verts are not bound to the hand bone either, they go with the forearm.Verts at the back of the foot are bound to the calf bone.If you think about how the mesh will deform, when you bind the wrist and ankle verts to the hand and foot, where they join the forearm and calf will squash very thin when the hand and foot rotate.
The only vert I can remember that gets bound to AIRNGR is a single groin vert at the front.The ranger has two spine bones right?(Havent got any of this stuff installed to check) the rest of the body verts should be bound to them.You can check them all with WDump or by making single bone animations.
I assume if hes getting bad stretching then its skeletal export rather than bind issues.
Do you change any of the bones position/rotation in gmax? Are you making sure to export the model using the correct reference skeleton?
You know you can check your models/animations etc in W3d viewer without having to load up Gen/ZH? This also gives you the advantage of going through animations frame by frame.
Can someone tell me if im doing this right?
