 | | | Skinning problems | Skinning problems 2003-12-08 - By Dru Abrams
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I've been known to make a less than coherent mid-morning post myself... Its
cool.
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Joey Ponthieux wrote:
> Joey Ponthieux wrote:
> >
> > Olivier Renouard wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Joey,
> > >
> > > This is a common problem with Maya skinning, there seem to be a limited
> > > precision, and when you start to move too far from the origin, such things
> > > start to show. If you modeled everything 1:1 it starts at about the
figures
> > > you mentioned.
> > >
> > > Workarounds we use is working at 1:10 on everything (I'd prefer 1:1 for
> > > simplicity of dynamics settings, but well). Another option would be to
make
> > > the aircraft the center of the scene and move everything around it (maybe
> > > only for the "inside" shots) but it could be a bit confusing to animate.
> > >
> > > Olivier
> > >
> >
> > Unfortunately my scene is far to big to accomplish to move the other
> > items around teh craft.
>
> It's become incredibly apparent that the lack of coherence of this
> statement is in direct relationship to the lack of sleep I've had this
> weekend, which in itself is inversely relative to the sum of hours spent
> trying to force Maya to behave. However, I feel confident that only
> other 3D animators would understand both that satement, and this one....
>
> > Further, I spent weeks learning and setting up a
> > fluid effect for clouds and I really dont want to change it now. Any
> > changes to scene scale etc would make things very diffcult and I'm on a
> > tight schedule. I might be able to move everything so that the point at
> > which I'm on the flightdeck happens to be near world zero. Thanks for
> > the input.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Joey Ponthieux
> --
>
> Joey Ponthieux
> NCI Information Systems Inc.
> NASA Langley Research Center
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