Component editor not showing skin weights

[nlong]

can anyone help me with this problem? i have smooth bound a character and when i choose a vertice or a group of vertices and then go to component editor and click on the smooth skins tab it doesnt show any weights or spaces. it just shows the selected vertices and the model which the vertices affect. its not even showing the joint which controls the vertices.

I tried to select the vertices of a character i did before which also did not show anything. the other tabs in the component editor seem to work fine but the smooth skins tab doesnt show me anything. If anyone has encountered this problem before please help thanks.

[goggle]

When you use a Polysmooth on a skincluster maya don't add a weight to the new vertex.
At this time there's no script who can do this but it's in theory possible...

[joojaa]

You ca interpolate the values from the original. The efect isnt 100% the same. But then the endtire idea of using history would be wasted.

So let me explain this a bit further. A meshsmooth gets interpolated over the points next to it and the points and the points beyond that so each point in a smooth is affected by atleast 4 points in each direction. Now if you bind this to a skincluster and smooth then it goes ahead and proceeds working like this as long as history is intact.

BUt if you broke the correlation and rebound by interpolating the weights... youd end up with something that would behave differently. Why, because your points now only relate to the binding stucture! Whereas the soothbind provioiusle related to how the parent points were now mowed to by the cluster, and proceed still working like previousley described.

But would it be possible to mimic the effect precicely, Yes! Absolutely almost identicaly too. BUT and a big BUT you couldnt aeffact how the skin is bound! The skin would only do this under certain very spesific circumstances. Namely where the original skin is bound in a very specific way so that each point is affected by a number of joints that correspond to how the smooth interpolation is done. Ad this wold make certain bone configurations impossible too. Wich means it would be sortoff useless.

So it can not be realy done well, altough the interpolation is still probably wat you all are ACTUALY looking for.

[goggle]

I have sent a email last week to Michael Comet who have write saveWeights mel script.
He said that there are technical ways to solve this problem and he has been thinking of making a modification to saveWeights that will do something like what you mention, but he hasn't done so yet.

[jand]

I'm getting the same thing. Did you ever figure this out? If you did, could you post a solution?

Thanks,
Rob.