Detach skin question

[trickypuss]

Once I've rigid bound a section of geometry to a bone structure, how do I get it to detach itself? The "detach skin" option in the skin menu doesn't seem to do a damned thing. I've tried deleting the bone and starting over, but the geometry still thinks it's bound to something and won't rebind to the new bone. Help?

[perseus2]

What do you mean, "Doesn't seem to do a damned thing"? Do you get an error message? What does it say?

To detach a skin, go to the bind pose first; select the joint and the skin and click on "detach skin". If all else fails, you can delete the skin clusters, but that's kind of a hack.

[trickypuss]

Okay, clearly I don't know what I'm talking about. To tell the truth, I don't know that it's doing nothing, just not what I want. I don't get an error message, but when I go to rebind the geometry I DO get an error message saying the object is already skinned.

To "go to the bind pose", I assume you mean in the hypergraph or something? Because it's not showing in the outliner. Of course this is a dead giveaway to my newness to Maya...

Thanks for the help so far. I really appreciate it.

[yellowsayshello]

To go to bind pose, select the root joint and then select "Go To Bind Pose" under the Skinning menu.

To detach skin, you only have to select the surface that is bound. Go to "Detach Skin" under skinning, but open up the option box, and make sure that "delete history" is on, as opposed to "keep history".

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