Bones animate in but mesh doesn't...

[Warcraft3 is COOL]

Title says it all. Why is this happening to me???

i gave the mesh a skin modifier and attatched the bones to it and edited the envelops correctly and so on then animated the whole thing but when i go into the warcraft preview window the bones animate but the mesh doesn't move with the bones! Please help me...

Note: i'm using 3ds max 5 with the WC art tools.

 

[skrab]

plz read the Art Tools documentation

skin modifier doesn't work with Art Tools...

 

[Warcraft3 is COOL]

!!??!?!?

ok i feel like swearing...

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TIME AND EFFORT I PUT INTO THIS TING?

oh well. not your fault.


by the way, how am i supposed to do it then? (too lazy to find the place in the documentation

 

[Warcraft3 is COOL]

Forgot to say thanks.

Thanks!

 

[skrab]

click on "Select and link" option and click on the mesh than drag it to the bone...

its better for you to read the whole documentation

 

[Warcraft3 is COOL]

Ok thanks a million doc. lol...

so essencially i need to cut my mesh up, connect the parts to bones, then animate it? won't that produce holes in the mesh?



oh and off topic, CnC red alert 3 is gonna be great.

 

[skrab]

there will be holes if you don't check the Connected option in User Property Editor
so first select the mesh (all parts attached in one mesh) then check Connected
now Mesh is connected you can detach it and link it to the bones and animate it
but first test it before final animating

 

[Warcraft3 is COOL]

Dude you Rock! thanks a million...

ok now my super BFMEII dragon thing is a reality... lol.

 

[Wc2Lord.]

I imported a horse's mesh to Thrall's model. I removed the wolf, and put the horse in its way, but the horse is not moving. It is not animated. Can some1 please tell me how to make the horse to its animations in war3modeleditor. Thanks!