Been using Blender forever, I’ve only recently gotten to rigging and skinning, and I’m hitting my head against the wall trying to figure out what I’m doing wrong.
No amount of weight painting changes this. (Painting less verts, or painting more verts, or increasing the area of influence by painting more verts with less weight).
What am I doing wrong?
newhand.blend (139 KB)
Hi there
I am a newbee. But I played with the mesh and added a loopcut to narrow the area of influence. May be worth a look.
See the file.
Good luck
sree
newhand.blend (153 KB)
Thanks! That actually helps a lot. It seems so silly, but makes sense when I think about it. The fingers are simply too simple to bend well. Adding loopcuts to make “knuckles” seems to work well!
I think that the proposal in post #2 is not quite correct. It not only adds new loops but also bones vertex groups are assigned. The idea with bones vertex groups would lead to nice results but implementation in posting #2 isnt good at all as some bone’s groups include verts of adjacent fingers and it is impossible for the model to work smoothly… I’ve re-assigned vertex groups using the original .blend from posting #1. I think the results are better. Also, I’d suggest that bones rest positions get re-aligned to follow more closely the central line of that finger. It is advisable to re-align the palm bone too… Finally, I’d never use an IK solver for the fingers but it depends on the designer’s goals - what will the planned finger movements be, etc.
Here is the newhand_3.blend after modifications I made.
Regards,
