Armature problem

Artistic Support Animation and Rigging
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I’m trying to rig a character (a bit of a noob, never really done rigging before) and am having some problems with bones deforming vertices which I don’t want them to. I have scaled all envelopes so they don’t affect anything, so all bones (should) only deform defined groups. Yet some vertices on the body keep being deformed by the arm bone - anyone got any ideas why?

Blend file is here.

Also, my model isn’t in the perfect rigging pose, and I’m finding it really difficult to seperate the under-arm vertices from the body vertices in order to group them - is there any easy way to do this?

Cheers for any help.

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Your link doesn’t work, try using this free host operated by one of the members here :
http://uploader.polorix.net/

You also mentioned “envelopes” and “groups”. For best control, you’re better off turning off envelopes in the armature modifier and using only Vert Groups.

More than likely you have more than one bone(vertex group) influencing an area of the mesh. You’ll probably have to use a combinatoin of the weight-painting and vertex group tools. If you select the mesh and switch to weight paint (CTR-TAB) (with the the armature in Pose mode), then press SH-LMB it will show you the vertex group(s) that are associated with the verts under the mouse pointer.

Take a look at the “Intro To Character Animation” tutorial by Ryan on the Wiki (see link in my signature).

Mike

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the link does work - you have to right-click and ‘save as’. Thanks for your suggestions, I’ll give it a go.

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Doesn’t work, right-click-save saves an html file saying something about “dynamic properties not enabled for this account”.

Mike

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ok, the new link is here.

Thanks Mike. The link works on my computer, but then again I’ve got a mac…

Not in any way implying that macs are better :eyebrowlift:

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Well now you’ve uploaded the same ~2k html fiile to the other file host.

What browser / program are you using to upload your file?

A compressed .blend file with a minimal armature and mesh is going to be at least 50-100K :slight_smile: (Do Mac’s even display file sizes ? :evilgrin: )

Mike

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@ Mike_S : the downloaded file isn’t a blend . It’s a html redirect page with “The page you are attempting to access uses dynamic functionality that has not been enabled for this hosting account.” written on it . For both links …
@themightyquinn : maybe you should use the uploader Mike_S linked to ?

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Hey V.P,

I usually count on you as one of the more coherent posters around here, but maybe you’ve had a couple too many beers before your last post ? :slight_smile:

  • I already pointed out that the file was an html file

  • M.Q. did (try) to use the polonix “uploader” site :spin:

Mike

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OK i think I know what happened… i downloaded the html file (which still had the extension .blend, leading me to think it was actually the blend file) and it replaced the ACTUAL, real blend file on my desktop. I then uploaded the file to the new server. :spin:

Try the link again. It should work.

If anyone still has the will to look at it, then please do… Mike, VERY sorry for testing your patience.

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@ Mike_S : duh sorry about that :spin: didn’t notice your last sentence . It’s a good thing to read the posts before posting …It’s a good thing to read the posts before posting …It’s a good thing to read the posts before posting …:spin:

@ themightyquinn : Nope still the same problem …

LOL nine posts and still no closer to a solution .