Edit weights on wrap deformer?

[user_deleted]

is there a way to do this? so after I create the wrap deformer i can tell maya which vertex to affect o nthe influence object.

currently i have it on character thats messing up the lip region. the top lips and bottom lip are modeled too close, so the wrap will randomly pull top lip on the influence object, when its suppose to pull the botom lip. the only way around it was to edit wrap object and reapply wrap several times, trail and error, but i need a better way to edit these kind of situation

[qwigs]

I had the same problem with a model I did.
What you can do to remedy this problem is make two seperate wrap deformers for the upper and lower lip. This means you have to cut the mouth out of your wrap deformer. Re-apply the mouthless wrap deformer to your character, but do it by selecting vertexes, and exclude the mouth area that would coincide with the mouth. Next you apply the top lip wrap deformer to the top lip of your model, then do the bottom lip to the bottom lip of your model. THAT will make it so your model will keep the lips seperate. The only down side to this is is you have to make sure the verts on the wrap deformer where the mouth borders connect with the rest of the head are weighted the same, otherwise you'll get some extremely gnarly effects. So just make sure you do the eye dropper on all the boarders and make sure their weights match up.

Hope that helps

[user_deleted]

thanks for the insight, i found out another was which was to apply a influence object to the mouth for a wrap deformer. (i.e a wrap deformer influence object) like a seperate mesh for upper lip or lower lip...but it just added some complexity to the history)

anyway I end up tweaking the base wrap object vertex bit by bit and always re assigning it to check if the strech still happens, eventually i got it all seperated. without adding any more complexity to the history.

Your way would just work as well I persume...I think its speeds up the overall model if you have more smaller pieces of wrap object instead of several large pieces...right?

[joojaa]

Another way would be to use vertice sets that limit 2 different wrap parts to two different areas.

[haikai]

i had the same problem as well... my less elegant solution was to just add more geometry to the wrap model around the lips so that it better conformed with the original mesh. it adds more geometry, but not a whole lot more, and i didn't need to do any extra work otherwise to get it to work.

hai