Adding new joints to old skinned mesh

[satellite]

ok

im trying to add joints to my hierchey thats already been skinned. i just want to add these new joints in the skinning, and not have to reskin and rewieght the whole character. i thought there was a way of just adding influnces for the joints but it doesnt seem to work.
anybody have any ides?

[gfunk]

what have you tried? if you pick the mesh, then pick your new joint, then use edit smooth skin-->add influence object and turn off the "use geometry" in the options, it should work fine. if you dont want ti tto automatically assign weights and potentially mess up your bind, i recommend toggling the "hold weights" option as well. then you can turn hold weights off your new joint and start adding weight to it.

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[nieder3d]

if what gfunk said doesn't work and your using smooth skin.. You can take a copy of the skeleton with the new joints in the same scene with the bound original. Duplicate the bound surfaces, and unlock there channels then place your skeleton in them with the new joints. Use the copy skin weights command on the original then paset weights on the new one... It will add the joints into the bind info- this will work good if you haven't made alot of changes to the skeleton.. As long as there mainly the same maya has a feature built into the command to make adkustments for slight modifications, if you made too many it won't work... -from the sounds of it though this should work for you..
(this can be confirmed in the help files)
-Good luck, hope you get to happen

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