Scaling rigged character problem

[mutiny33]

Yes I love when this happens.

So I have a model I want to import into the scene and scale down to size. I have grouped everything accordingly (ie leaving the wrap and hi res model outside the scale group). When I scale, everything works fine except the Hi res model.

The hires model geometry gets totally destroyed. This must be a problem with the wrap deformer. Its influence type is on 2. I have a solution to this but want to check with what you guys think.

After scaling the model down I change the influence type of the model to 1. This fixes everything except a few vertices that get left behind. After changing the max influence value to a larger number, these stray vertices snap to their place and everything looks alright.

Is this the right way to deal with a rigged model that I scale in a scene? Are there any future problems with working on a model whose wrap deformers influence type is on 1 instead of 2?

Thanks in advance.

[mark77]

yes, you should always use the influence type of 1 if you are going to scale the objects. When you have the influence set to 2, the mesh gets bad distortion when scaled. This is a bug in maya that has been around as far as I know since version 3.

The difference between influences 1 and 2 is that 1 is for vertices, and 2 is for faces. with 2 you can have a smaller max distance, with better performance, but you can't scale. Again the bug in maya.

A problem I'm dealing with today is having a referenced character with wrap deformers, that ARE scaled to fit scenes. I'm finding that with a influence 1 setting, the mesh is getting rippling effects. Both meshes are polys BTW. When I change the influence type to 2, the rippling goes away. But I need to scale my characters in other scenes! Terrible problem, as characters aren't finished with materials and blendshapes and all that. I may have to just resort to importing to those scenes when all materials and blendshapes are done.

Hopes this helps ya.