Deleting UV history and rigging

[xtort]

hey all

I am currently trying to texture map a polygonal character after he has been fully rigged. The problem is that I have seperated the UV set into multiple textures, and now they swim when animated. I have heard that there is a huge MAYA bug that goes along with deleting the history of UV's. I recieved a mel script that I was told would help, but it seems to detach the rigging from the model. Is there any way to get around this?

-xtort

[flys]

Hmm... that's odd. I've never had any problem deleting history of uv's, I do it all the time.
I just wrote in a couple days ago about how you can go about fixing this. Try refering to the "texture and rigging" post on this same forum.

Dave K.
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thedavecave@hotmail.com

[scotta]

I think the huge Maya bug is that you almost have no choice but to delete history to keep UVs intact. Unfortunately that also removes skin clusters. Find the script called 'fixWeights.mel' on this site. It will delete all history but (should) preserve the skin clusters. I use this a lot for just this type of problem, but it fails in some situations. Another thing that I do sometimes that may work is to duplicate the mesh, update the UVs, rebind it and use Copy Weights to get the right weighting.