Hi guys, new to the forum and also a beginner with Blender. I’m experiencing problems with my armature whereby i’ve just applied my parent deformation with automatic weights however when I go into pose mode and attempt to move each bone I can only move the bone itself and the mesh model simply won’t deform in correlation with the movements i’m making whatsoever, it’s just still. I used the following tutorial in order to create my character’s armature:
I would really appreciate some help with this matter and if somebody did manage to fix my armature so that I could apply automatic weights and it would correctly apply the weights to my mesh model i’d definitely be willing to make a reasonable donation as it’s of real urgency. I don’t have much time until I need to finish this particular assignment and this is a problem I simply can’t overcome whatsoever so if you can, help would be massively appreciated.
If you want to use parenting, you have to parent the mesh to the armature and not the other way around. Parenting is not a requirement though but it’s quite straightforward. Clear the parent by selecting your object and press alt+P, and remove all vertex groups from the object data properties before trying to assign automatic weights.
Your mesh has double geometry. Edit mode, select all, W -> remove doubles.
Apply the mirror modifier.
You could then try to parent your mesh to the armature by selecting them in that order and ctrl+P.
Automatic weights are rarely perfect. In your case, not even close so would have to assign weights manually.
Keep the armature in pose mode, that way you can select bones in weight paint mode and that selects the right vertex group when you either paint the weights or assign them in edit mode.
I will try this but the problem like you said is that the automatic weights simply won’t work on my model… I really struggle to assign the weights manually and it just won’t work despite my best efforts. Because i’m going to need to animate my model I simply need the weights to be working properly and I can’t understand why my model in particular simply won’t work.
I know it’s asking a lot but if you could fix the weight painting on my model I would literally offer you payment, $15 if you could make it so I could animate it myself flawlessly without any of the problems i’m currently receiving.