Exporting skin weights

[torran]

I am working in Maya 4 and having some problems with exporting and importing skin weight maps. All the maps is black after exporting and when I importing them in the new scene no influence is there exept from the pelvis. I have tried alpha and luminance option, iff ant tiff format, but nothing seems to help. Please is there anyone that have the solution for this problem?

Torran........................

[torran]

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[twedzel]

I personally have had no problems with the export import skin weight maps, works like a charm. But a few issues, be careful about your naming conventions. Make sure the all the joints are named something different. Also make sure that the joint names are exactly the same from when exporting to importing. Other than that it's been working exremely well.

[ako88]

I too am having a problem with this new tool. I can export the weight maps, but when I iimport them, even on the same model, I get weights all over the model. It seems like its projecting its own UV's or something.

[torran]

I solved the problem by assigning automatic mapping to my model, that would help (if it

[ako88]

In reply to:
I solved the problem by assigning automatic mapping to my model, that would help (if it

[torran]

Do you mean Paint Skin Weights Tool? Anyway I did use that after importing the skin weights without any problems I even added some vertices to.

I have not textured my character yet but I dont think that it will be any problems becasue I will use Deep Paint 3D and only use one file texture. But I cant really see the problems to change mapping for texturing after you have applied the skin weights, I havent tried it but I think it would work.

So what I did was:

1. Skinned the model
2. Painted the skin weights
3. Exported the skin weights
4. Opened another scene with the same model
5. Assigned automatic mapping to the model
6. Skinned the character to the same skeleton as I used in the earlier scene.
7. Imported the skin weights

And for me this worked perfect..

Torran........................

[twedzel]

I have my UV's layed out for deep paint with a single shader applied for the whole body and therefor no overlapping UV's... It could have something to with it working so well for me. I never bothered to look at the weight maps it generated, but I wouldn't doubt its based on your UV layout and so overlapping UV's would be the reason for the less than stellar results.