Mesh not connected

[Time-to-die]

Hey, today I decided to give WC3 modeling a try, and I started off with a box and it exported fine. So I moved on to something more complex. I made a spider basically. I got all the animations to work once exported but the only problem is that once exported, the mesh is not connected to the bones anymore. I am using 3ds max 4, and have tried connecting it with physique and skin modifiers with no success. I had to use envelopes tho because I don't think max 4 has a weight table option. They are connected in max but not once i export it. I really don't know any other way of doing it, the tutorial I was following said I would have to break up the mesh and attach it to the bones with separate pieces? Does anyone know a link to doing it this way?

Edit, Okay I broke the mesh up into pieces and assigned them each to the specific bone. And now the animation works as long as I don't hide the skeleton. Is there some special way of hiding it?

Edit 2, Okay so I read the wc3 tools program a little more and figured out that I have to use a special add on to assign which is bone and which is mesh. And it seems to have finally hid the bones!

Sweet

 

[bboy-tiger-]

I know that in 3dsmax 4/5 you have to break mesh to pieces and make each bone animate one piece. Tho I'm using 3dsmax9, you will need to wait for someone who is using 3dsmax 5. But maybe this helped you in something.

 

[skrab]

Art Tools documentation is your friend.

 

[Time-to-die]

Yeah Its mostly all good now, it just sucks that I cant have a single mesh that flexes. instead I got to have holes and such in the joints where the mesh is a different piece.