Mesh Rigging Malfunction [MDLVIS]

[z00rtaz]

Hello there!
I have been trying to replace the skeleton on Happycockroach's CryptRider
model with the Priest Model by Blizzard, I.E replacing the geosets and rig the new mesh using MDLVIS onto the bones already in place by Happycockroach. However, I believe either there's something I'm missing in the rigging, or there's something which I do not know about reagrding how bones interact with vertices, because the mesh does not follow the movement of the bones... Or well they do move, but not as "much" as they should/I would like them to.

The most obvious example is the Animation "death", as it has the most drastic movement.

 

[Edge45]

Maybe you should reattach them again
Not add, reattach

 

[UgoUgo]

MDLVis is freaking buggy when it comes to rigging, or at least my version of MDLVis is. All of I get from rigging in MDLVis is deforming the model.

I usually just use Oinker's Vertex Modifier and Notepad for rigging, though it is a bit confusing.

 

[z00rtaz]

I checked which bones the geoset I imported were refering to in The MatrixEater. Turns out MDLVIS had assigned the imported mesh to an invisible bone called "Bone_Null", which caused the deformaties.

Edit: Any time you assign a vertice to a bone in MDLVIS 1.40, the phenomenon described above occurs.

 

[NhazUl]

Never occurred to me. Are you sure you're clicking on the right bone? If not, it's easier to select it from the list on the upper right menu.

 

[UgoUgo]

Never occurred to me. Are you sure you're clicking on the right bone? If not, it's easier to select it from the list on the upper right menu.

If you don't mind, can you upload your MDLVis or link it somewhere?
I'd like to try to see if it works for me.

 

[NhazUl]

Here's the link for the MdlVis version I use. It's 1.40. As for the model, perhaps the mesh is attached to two or more bones? In this case, its movments are a superposition of the movements of all the bones attached.

 

[UgoUgo]

Wow, this version works like a magic Now I no longer have to attach bones with Oinker's Vertex Modifier ;D

Before this I was using MDLVis 1.40 but without having to place it in warcraft folder. Perhaos the one I'm using is buggy.

But still, you just saved me from wasting more of my energy, so thank you for that. C:

 

[NhazUl]

Hm, mine is not in the Warcraft folder either, I just copy Storm.dll into the MdlVis directory and it works fine, even without WC3 installed.