Bake Topology + Blend Shapes Still Work?

[anders-fray]

I'm tryin to fix up a character of mine but have been having a lot of troubles...

I am trying to merge a couple vertices on my character... vertices that were supposed to be merged a long time before I started rigging. These vertices are right next to eachother and they won't be changing the mesh of my character very much if merged. I am trying to bake that change through my blend shapes so that the vertices are merged on my blend shapes also. I can save out the weights of my character, unskin it, merge the vertices, bake the topology through the blend shapes, then delete history, re-skin, import those saved weights, apply the blend shapes again, but any method of baking I use... the blend shapes won't work anymore. Maya's "bake topology to targets" tool is a piece of crap, and the other baking script i was trying to use doesn't seem to work properly also. I was wondering if anyone knew how to bake mesh changes to blend shapes while keeping those blend shapes still usable... any help would be great. I've tried a million different ways to try to get this to work, but I am just about ready to give up.

[joojaa]

Do you have noneverlapping uv cordinates?

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my character, unskin it, merge the vertices, bake the topology through the blend shapes, then delete history, re-skin, import those saved weights, apply the blend shapes again, but any method of baking I use...

Well that would offcourse explain it. because belend shapes are history so if you DELETE the history you loose the blend.

bake tropology actually woeking on histry so i see no nreason why youd need to delete history other then the merge node (or even that the original does not come into play anyway). Also don't see any reason why you'd need to exoport the skin and reskin.

Dont really se any big reason why youd need to bake tropoology either. just slap the merge after the fact its not like its a very expensive operation.