A strange stupid problem that happens during animation.

[Matarael]

Ok so I don't know how this came to be.

I played around with the Jaina model and reskinned it etc. Everything is fine. It works, no problem, when suddenly after replacing a few skins (using MDLVIS) suddenly I noticed something stupid. Its hand gets distorted like a piece of shit when it's animated.

I attached this picture so you can see (or laugh at it/me if you wish):

See, when it's unanimated, it's fine. But as soon as an animation plays (stand, move, etc) it gets an elephant hand. ONLY on its left non-staff wielding hand.

Anyone know why? Thanks.

I used: Magos Model Editor for material selection from MPQ and MDLVIS for skinning/mapping.

 

[PROXY]

You know, MDLVIS sometimes fucks up the animations or you do it by accident.

If you can give me the model, I can show you how to fix it. You just need to reassign the vertexes to the hand bones.

 

[Matarael]

Sure thing... via private message I guess?

 

[eubz]

There's nothing wrong with the mapping, but with the geosets in relation to bones and nimations I guess.

 

[Matarael]

There's nothing wrong with the mapping, but with the geosets in relation to bones and nimations I guess.

I thought so as well but I didn't do anything to the stupid bones and geosets I just remapped it using a different texture. So I mean, what the hell happened???

 

[PROXY]

Okay, here it goes:

As I already told you, the vertexes of your hand got somehow assigned to other bones. Here is an easy way to fix that.

Step1

Go to MDLIVS, open your model and click on the modules.

Step2

Select the sequence editor and switch to the bones field (the grey buttons).
Now select the vertexes that are assigned to the false bones. In the bottom left corner the assigned bones will appear.

Step3

Double-Click on the right bone, in our case Bone_Arm2_LArchDruid. Now the bone in the viewer will change it's colour, so you see you selected it. Now click on the grey window button (you see it in the picture). It will reattach all selected vertexes ONLY to this bone. The vertexes are attached to the right bone again now.

result

I don't know why exactly it happened, but it might be that you used the uncopple function in the UVW-Mapper in MDLVIS, as it usually reassignes the vertexes to. But I'm not shure.

 

[Matarael]

Holy shit... You saved me a few hours of tedious hard work ha ha ha. And taught me a new knowledge, which in my tradition means you're entitled to marry my firstborn. I'll be sure to tell my son he'll marry the Great PROXY of Hiveworkshop one day.

Also: You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to PROXY again.

 

[PROXY]

Thaha, no problem man. I'm really happy that I could teach that to you, I have found that all out by myself, slowly trying everything having not an idea what to do, so I'm glad I could tell ya that