Help! Delete Non-deformer History Hoses Skin Weights

[dskill369]

So -

I've been running into this in a bunch of different files, and I'm starting to narrow in on the problem even though it doesn't make much sense to me.

Basically, If I have a character, and that character has more than 1 shader, and then I "Delete Non-Deformer History" on the mesh, maya will destroy the skin weighting on about 5% of my verts. If I fix the weighting on those verts and then "Delete Non-Deformer History" again, the weights pop back to their original, bad weighting.

And here's the weird part: if I apply a single shader to my rig, instead of the 2 shaders it had to begin with, then "Delete Non-Deformer History" works fine. Go figure.

I already have a script written that records the shader assignments, applies a lambert material to everything, deletes non-deformer history, and then re-applies the original shader assignments. This script does work, but I think it is just hiding the real problem.

Anyone else run into this? I believe it's also causing problems with the copy skin weights tool and the subsitute geometry tool.

Thanks for your help~
Drew

oh - i'm on Maya 7.0.1

[dskill369]

Although I've seen lots of people check out this post, doesn't look like anyone else has run into the problem, or at least has a solution.

In case anyone is interested, we've removed all uses of "Delete Non-Deformer History" from our rig pipeline. Instead, we're going back to the old school approach of deleting history, making rig changes, and then copying the skin weights back across to the modfied model. Not as elegant as delete non-deformer history, but at least it's stable.

Drew

[joojaa]

I came acros this the first time i saw the option put it away and frogot it exsisted.

The problem with fix my intent buttons are that if the computer KNEW exactly what to delete whan and where, we would not have the other tools in firtsplace!

[drblacksnake]

are You sure You have checked SkinCluster's settings carefully? there could be influence limit set or smth - one un/ticked checkbox may ruin your nerves.