I downloaded this model from CGTrader (by vicmax) and tried to add an armature, but it fails.
I tried with just one bone and it still fails. What is it about this model that doesn’t work with an armature? Or is there something else I’m missing?
Thanks.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A1rUSdTG8kLMh_CaRtaxE4PE49bpUCCx/view?usp=sharing
Quite weird, At first I was thinking that could come from the featers but separating them doesn’t work either.
I suspect that there is non manifold polygons in the geometry, that could explain the failure…
You can try this trick that is quite clever : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJOBA2vmnV0
he duplicate the mesh, do a remesh of it (that output clean geometry) then auto-weight it, and finally transfert vertex weight data to the original mesh…
A bit tedious but chances are that it will work better !
thanks for reply. I looked at the video, but I get confused on after converting mesh it looks like he deletes it. I tried auto-weight the new mesh, same issue.