Texturing after binding

[technoguy]

Hello

I am modeling a poly character. First i rigged with smooth skin and painted all the weights. Now I just finished tweaking the UVs and painting the textures. It looks good when it's on the bind pose, but if i move the joints it messes up. I guess the UVs arent attached to the skeleton or something, does anybody know how to fix that? Thanks!

[sunil_born2win]

Sorry to tell you that, but UV mapping and tweaking has always to be done BEFORE skinning and painting weights. Even if it is possible to apply a projection with the option "insert before deformers", this will not care about UV tweaking in the texture editor, and it will all go wrong if done after binding a skel to a model and paint weights. Hope this helps

Alban

[twedzel]

Layout your UV's first, delete history... bind your model with as little in the inputs as possible. I think everyone makes this mistake the first time through. You are in luck if you are using Maya 4, smooth bind has an export skin weight maps function for smooth bind, which allows you to save your weighting, unbind delete history, and then re import. Works like a beaut too (watch the naming conventions on your skeleton though).

[dreamromancer666]

I think i'm doing that right now. this may or may not work but i think it will. just set all your input nodes and output nodes to "have no effect" then do what ever you want to do. then turn them all back on. and it is in effect like you undid all of it then did it again. but it saves what you did so you just gotta flip switches. i hope that helps. especially because it will be a huge problem for me if i have to unbind to texture the model. because i will be making multiple models with different textures.

[torran]

There is no problem to texture a already bind character, as long as you have a saving before binding. Just texture the version before binding, import it to the bind character scene, use Transfer UV:s then apply the textures in hypershade and your done. I always apply the textures just before rendering to save computer power..

Torran........................