Skinning/Mirror Weights Question

[will-lee]

Hello,

I've run into an issue while trying to Mirror over the skin weights on a character I just rigged.

I'm using Maya 2011, and have set the skinning method to "Weight Blended", allowing me to incorporate the Dual Quaternion solver in certian areas.

When I mirror the weights, the normal skin weight values mirror over just fine, however the DQ blend weights are actually pulled from one side to the other, so now instead of being on both sides, they are no longer on the left, and only on the right.

Any ideas on how to get the DQ blend weights to mirror?

-WIll

[artofjesse]

I ran into the same problem a couple of hours ago, acutally, and after a long time of trying random rediculous methods and searching for tools that didn't exist, I figured it out.  You have to select the half of the mesh (verteces in component mode) with the DQ weights you want to mirror over and then run the Mirror Skin Weights tool. I've found the best options set is to have the Surface Association set to Closest point on surface with the Influence Associations both set to One to one, but I guess it depends on what you are skinning.  Anyway, I hope that helps. It doesnt work beautifully and it took me a couple tries, but it sure beats doing it all by hand.  I can't believe autodesk didn't put in a tool for mirroring DQ weights.

[will-lee]

That's...the most bizzare thing I've ever heard haha.

Well thank you for responding, I'll definitely give it a try. That's just such an odd way to have it function. I agree, I can't fathom why Autodesk didn't just make a "Mirror DQ Weights tool", as if 99.99% of rigs aren't symmetical.