Skeleton won't go to bind pose

[tikimon]

ok, i'm still having trouble here... i've been trying to add a skin to a skeleton that already contains the basic character model of my animation. the weights have already been painted on it and it has been animated completely. the problem is that the fur renderer is taking WAY too long, and so i'm trying to detach the fur "jacket" i have on my character to add a PFX fur "jacket". of course, detaching and deleting the fur is easy, but i'm having a problem attaching this new skin. i'm already afraid that it might affect my animation as it is, but if i detach the main character, i lose the painted weights i had. i've tried exporting the weight maps, but there are 68 of them, and maya always crashes in the process. go to bind pose does absolutely nothing, even with all my expressions turned off and after moving the root node. it just doesn't move back to the original pose. so what can i possibly do here? i REALLY don't have time to go back and fix weights or animation, as i need to start rendering if i hope to submit to siggraph. (not that i think it'll get in, but it's always worth a shot! ) if anyone has any ideas, PLEASE share! i'll be sure to include you in the credits. heheh... thanks!

:=TiKiMoN

[joaomontenegro]

you probably know this already but if you dont...

you have to disable the skeliton nodes, and then go back to the bind pose, so select the joints that were bound, and go > modify>disable nodes>all
then go navk to biund pose, then enable the nodes again. Hope this helps, Russ

[gmask]

Hey,

select the skeleton and then go to Modify|Enable Nodes|disable all ...then try Go to bindpose.

Does it give you an error?

If you look in the hypergraph is there a bindpose node?

If worse comes to worse you can skin new surfaces to the skeleton by deleting the bindpose node.

[warpcat]

Pesky Bind Poses. An easy fix is just reassign the bind pose to the skeletons new values: pick the root joint and:
dagPose -reset -name bindPose1
This is presuming your bind pose is called "bindPose1", which it most likely is. To check, just check out the root joints Outputs section in the channel box, it's in there. This has saved my butt on several occasions...

[tikimon]

thanks g... and everyone else... i haven't tried any of these methods yet, as i'm stuck on a slow-ass O2, but when i do, i'll let you all know what worked. actually, i don't really give a flying fluck about the bind pose... i won't need it, and it's really just been a pain in the arse. so i might try deleting that node first. however, i'm sure by doing one thing, i'll mess up about 50 more. welp, thanks again! i'll let you know how it goes...

:=TiKiMon

[tikimon]

thanks warpcat! i was about to pull all my hair out, but now i get to let nature and gravity do it! reassigning the bind pose had no ill effects on the previously bound skin nor the newly bound fur "jacket". now i get to attempt a render!! wooo-hoo! thanks man!

:=TiKiMoN