Help a noob use skin envelope properly

[billypnats]

I for the love of god cannot find a good tutorial on properly skinning and weighting cloths and armor around the armpit and pelvis... Can anyone give some pointers?

 

Currently I'm stuck with using skin wrap to generate skin data but that doesn't work out too well, and I have no idea how to use the skin envelope tool, theres too many big words and jargons for a noob like me :(

 

ANY help is appreciated thanks!

[aruless]

When using skin wrap, are you using vertex or face deformation? are you changin the falloff value? Look this tutorial maybe you can find it usefull, i know i did.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvjLw7d_x4

[billypnats]

which tutorial?

 

and I've been using both face and vertex, haven't tried big changes to falloff value tho, I think I've use 20-35, which values are optimal?

[Ghogiel]

The fallout value will depend if you are using face or vertex deformation and on relative surface differences between the 2 objects you are using skin wrap on. If they are near identical topology then a low falloff will be fine with vertex deformation. etc

 

Also try vertex deformation and use the distance influence, you can usually get a rough idea of what number is good at just eyeballing the 2 meshes and seeing how different they in terms of relative proportion. The closer they match the lower the distance will need to be. And don't think about trying to get random crap like huge pauldrons in into the equation, imo you can rig those separate< use skin wrap if you wanted, that way the skin capture will be more accurate on the bulk of it.

[billypnats]

Thank u !

 

So by near identical topology you mean they roughly look like the same shape right? like a shirt and the body?

Edited April 16, 2012 by billypnats

[Ghogiel]

Not only proportion and shape, I mean the actual mesh topology as well. like where the edgeloops run and vertex placement.

[d547591134]

Thank u I now