Resetting bind pose (?)

[tyytikki]

Ok, so here's the situation:
I have a model of the character, and I have a full rig (with all the controllers and ik handles and stuff). I need to resize and move some of the bones on the rig (so it will fit my character), and the question is - how do I do that correctly?
(Because right now when I do that, and then try to rigid bind it to the mesh, it says that it's not the correct bind pose. And when I go to "go to bind pose", the rig goes back to the way it originally was, which is not what I need). Please help.

[goggle]

I say rebind. Save your weighting with your prefered method. Select your skin and then go to Skin->Detach Skin. Do this for any geometry you have bound to your skeleton. The end goal is to get rid of any "skinCluster" nodes. Once all of those are gone you can go in and mess with your rig all you want. Then you can completely rebind your geometry to your skeleton. This rebinding will create a new bindPose. Then you can re-import your weights onto the new skinCluster binding.

This is probably the most straightforward way of doing it. Although there are MEL commands which will write a new bindPose on an existing skinCluster. I just find this method to be more thorough.

Hope this helps.

-James

[tyytikki]

Hey thanks, I messed around with it and it works;
I have another question though - one leg bends normally (using the foot control), but another one keeps bending to the side (I think I might need to reorient a joint or something); is there a way to fix it without unbinding it?

[goggle]

Are you using pole vectors? Have you adjusted the roll and twist values if you have an ik handle? Usually one of these will solve the problem. Failing that you can try to use the Skeleton->Set Preferred Angle command. If that doesn't work I'd say it's time to rebind again. But that gets easier each time you do it.

Generally speaking it's a good idea to stress test your skeleton before binding so that you have to rebind as few times as possible.

Hope this helps.

-James