Rerecord bind pose mel command

[nolls]

I could have sworn that somewhere in some book or online, I found a mel command which I used a long time ago that didn't just return a skeleton to its original bind pose - it recorded the current state of the skeleton with any translations, rotations, etc. as the NEW bind pose. I really need to find this because I'm having major problems binding my base facial blendshape to the character's skeleton. I can't get the skeleton back to bindpose. I disabled all nodes to no avail. I've done all sorts of weighting on the arms, legs, pants and shirt that I really don't want to redo again by unbinding. I set the skeleton up with the Alex Alvarez method of IK/FK, which is no longer necessary with Maya 4, and I would guess that this setup may be contributing to the complications I'm having with the bind pose.

Does anyone have any alternate solutions???

I swear there was a Maya Script for this! (not the pointing down the bone one either)

[ragtag]

I would be interested in that script too....

Though as for alternatate solutions. You could try using the record pose script available from highend3d. It prints out the translate, rotate, scale values off all the selected objects in a MEL script. You can then run that MEL script to get it back to the pose.

Ragnar

[nolls]

Ragnar,

Thanks for replying!

I did something which is a total cheat but seems to have worked so far. I unparented the left and right shoulder/clavicle joints from the back/neck joint and unparented the lower back joint from the hip joint. Then I bound the face to the back, neck and head joints with success and reparented everything back to the way it was. Surprisingly, all the weights still seem to be intact for all geometry, and now the head moves with the skeleton! Total luck if you asked me.

Anyway, it's so cool that people here actually help one another and in a fairly fast fashion too.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Nolls

[torran]

Just write:
dagPose -reset -name bindPose1
in the command line
were "bindPose1 is the name you want it to have...

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