Re: Transfer envelope weights

[Francois Lord <francoislord(at)gmail.com>]

My wild guess would be something with the Automatic Envelope Assignment 
operators. These are often forgotten and can screw the weights big time. 
Freezing them solved many problems for me.


Bernard Lebel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Anyone has experience with transferring envelope weights? I'm talking
> about saving out weights to file, and re-apply those on the same mesh
> later on.
>
> Here are my results:
>
> http://www.bernardlebel.com/img_remote/3D/XSI/envtransferBefore.png
>
> After:
>
> http://www.bernardlebel.com/img_remote/3D/XSI/envtransferAfter.png
>
>
>
> I have a run a script that prints the weight values before and after,
> and the differences are very minor (rounding errors after the fifth
> decimal for 10% of the total values, which I think should be quite
> acceptable).
>
> I have tried both by writing weights to an XML file and to save a preset.
> All envelope operators were frozen.
> The weights were written when the character is in neutral pose, and
> reapplied in the same fashion.
> The construction is set to Animation when the weights are imported.
>
>
> One thing: if the character already has an envelope correctly set,
> then the ugly deformation does not occurs.
>
>
> Thanks
> Bernard
>
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