Edit Model After Rigging

[siuchichi]

after i have rigged my character, i found that the character's hands is too long and i want to scale it down a little bit. do i need to do it over, or i can still scale or edit the model with everything already set up?
thanks a lot for your help. really appreciiated.

[dunkelzahn]

Difficult. Several approaches:

-If your hands joint position is okay, then just move the hand joints until they fit. If your hand deforms according to your wishes, then that

[siuchichi]

thanks a lot chris

i think i will take the second approach.

chi

[sheriffcicada]

Hey guys-

Couldn't you just grab the intermediate object, duplicate it, alter the duplicate, and then reconect the new model to the rigged character as the new intermediate object. Comet's website (http://www.comet-cartoons.com/melscript.php) has some great scripts for redefining the bindpose so that your new bone positions can be used as the bind-pose. No need for setting "dirty" keyframes. This is also a great all-around rescource for rigging.

Hope that helps

Sheriff

[underearth]

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Rigging and remodelling really is a big nono, it

[dunkelzahn]

The point is, that your skinning is applied on your mesh in a similar way as a texture. Now, if skin your mesh and then apply new UV coordinates, it might screw up either your textures or your skinning, apart from your texture coordinates being applied after your mesh deformations due to your skinning. Examples of errors you may encounter are a texture that "swims" on your character.

Changing the inputs of your UV mapping happening before your skinning might help, but that

[underearth]

hi.,,
what i did today is i duplicate my model delete history.. and create simple uv map fro it i just want to paint some texture over stomach area...and now when i transfer uv from that model to original using polygon>Transfer>uv sets.. it create one polyTransfer node...yuck!!!!

i don't need that... wanna delete it..i have maya 7..and i use delete by type>non deform history.. but it screws up my blend shapes...bad thing.. as i have already connected it to facial ui i don't want to redo that thing...but skin is working fine.. any suggestion on that..