Preserve Smooth-skin Weights?

[cycloid]

Okay, I am really hoping that its me thats stupid, because the alternative is that Alias is stupid, and that frankly scares me Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how you can detach a smooth skin, edit the skeleton, and reattach it without loosing all your carefully painted weightmaps. Basically, I need the "preserve weights/detach" option from the rigid skin menu but I need i to work for smooth skins. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[tinus]

as far as I know it is not possible (i hope im wrong though)

if you don't have to edit much, you could consider editing while still having the surface attached to the bones (only in component mode)

or you'll have to do it all over again! (welcome to the club!)

[stormtroopar]

Actually, you can do this with the copy skin weight feature.

All you need to do is make a duplicate of you model (with 'duplicate input connection' option checked so it copys the model, skeleton, and all the skinning history with it). Afterwards the new copy is going to be your smooth skin weight reference. I suggest you put the duplicate object and skeleton in a new layer and hide it.

At this point you can detach or do whatever you want with your skeleton or your model. After you are done, reskin the character with smooth skin. Then unhide your weight reference model and skeleton and do a 'copy skin weight' from the weight reference model to the one you want to copy to. In order to use the copy skin weight, make sure both of the root joint are aligned, otherwise it wouldn't let you copy.

Also, try to preserve the skeleton hierachy as much as possible. With different hierachy, it will still copy, but results might be a bit off. It is a good habit to have the right skeleton structure from the start anyhow.

Hope this helps.

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