Nobody answered me in rigging thread =S.
Hello I’m an Australian 17 year old student. Me and 3 friends have been entered into a 3DS max university competition by our Multimedia teacher. So basically we have to make a animation in 5 months, because we were entered into the competition late. We only have like 4 months experience each with 3DS MAX 2010, but aren’t complete noobs. We’ve managed a fair bit of good quality people, objects and landscapes but our main and I think only trouble is rigging the character (who is a teddy bear).
so we tried the physique modifier and enveloping, but it wasn’t a very good finished product, so we looked into the skin modifier and it seems a lot more suited for a teddy bear model. Although with our 4 months experience this is a challenging task…
Well I have attached the problem file, and was hoping that somebody could have a look at it, and give some pointers or actually make the skin modifier work well =D…
(file normally has fur, but the file size was too big to attach so I took fur off).
When I try skin, I do the paint weights and try to make it work, but things like the shoulders are challenging..
Thanks for any help!

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teddy_bear_1.zip

maybe people aren’t answering because you’ve shown than you haven’t done any actually research.

look in the help files to start with, and look up skin morph and skin wrap.

sorry if this message sounds kind of rude but honestly nothing worse to me than a youngster who wants spoon feeding.

apart from that the teddy model is terrible. i spent 5 mins remaking it because basically with that mesh your just going to have a world of trouble trying to skin or texture that mess. my model is just a guide line and very quick just to try to show you a clean mesh thats rigging and texture friendly.

i also centred everything, including the rig, and put in all at 0,0,0. i didn’t skin it because i don’t have time to but just do more research next time

3Ds Max 2012+Sp2 +SAP, Vray 2.2, Photoshop CS5.1
OS - Windows 7 Pro x64 Sp1
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