Add Influence Problem

[nickfury3]

My character is smooth bind, everything works fine.

I want to add a joint that will affect my elbow.

I do add influence :

Error: No skinned objects were found in the selection.

but may character is skinned ( and selected ) when I do Add influence.

It seems that maya can't recognize my skincluster, I've try some PSD with ''shapebuilder'' for example, and it didn't work, it says :

''Enter a valid skinCluster for the selected baseMesh''

for now, I don't know what to do with this.

maybe you know?

[torigornottorig]

Go to the animation menu. Under Skin-->Detach Skin make sure it says "Keep History" (this preserves your skin weights). Then click "Detach"

Now select all of your joints again, including the ones you want to add in for your elbow. Go to the Skin Menu-->Bind Skin-->Smooth Bind and make sure the settings are how you want. Reskin.

Now, you should have all of your joints applied to the skin. You may have to paint some weights around the elbow, but the rest of your weights should be preserved.

I'm not sure exactly why Maya does this annoying crap, but it seems to have something to do with history maybe. I've noticed that it won't do this kind of thing if I've just bound the character and haven't done anything to him really, but if I've worked on him a lot, like painting weights and making other adjustements, that it's more likely not to let me add influences. Hope this helps.

--toRigOrNotToRig