Character Clothing Help

Support Animation and Rigging
#1

Hi,

For clothing my character what would be the best way of approaching it?

Should I use CTRL-J to combine the clothing and character then add details and bake the normal map, then do rigging and weight painting?

Or is there a way to make 1 rig control the character and the clothing on top? Will this work well?

Thanks in advance!

#2

I’m assuming you’re talking about rigging clothing. No, it doesn’t need to be one mesh object. The cloth can have it’s own armature.

Method in question “Weight Paint Transfer”
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfTRwXpmuQ

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#3

I want to rig it as one armature though.

#4

Yes, it’s using one armature applied to different mesh objects, i.e clothes.

#5

Alright. Will it work well or can errors occur?