Scale Joints / Skeleton To Fit Mesh

[darkkeeper]

Hello everyone,
I'm new to computer-animation and I'd like to ask you a question.
I created a mesh and now would like to animate it. For the animation I use the motion capture data of the Carnegie Mellon University. Thus, I have a ready skeleton which does not match my mesh.

I tried to just rotate the joints and scale them so the skeleton fits my mesh. I assume it is not that easy, because when I load in the animation the character is severely deformed and messed up.

Am I missing some important facts? How can I make the skeleton fit my mesh?

Thank You.

[joojaa]

Well you need to do somesort o freeze in the middle baceus eth motion capture data spits out values for yoru defrmations. So not only you uou need the same shape of sekeleton but also the same position in 0 values!

[darkkeeper]

hi,
that helped. now it works perfectly and also the fbx export works. that way i can do the rest in max (which i am more used to).

thanks,
maik