Hi there, I developed a tool for Maya to drop weights on a skinned character to be freely manipulated, and then re-attach (skin) with the correct joints and skinning info.
Here’s a link to the the post and source code.
Hope you find it useful.
https://steemit.com/maya/@agovela/maya-skin-detach-attach-tool
Let me know what you guys think.
Enjoy!
How does this differ from Deformer > Export/Import Weights?
It saves you steps, by doing multiple meshes at once, and don’t have to browse to save/load files, It also remembers to what joints it has to re-skin, and the max influence used per mesh.
Most of our skeletons include joints we don’t skin to, but are joints used in the game engine, so this helps a lot.
Give it a try, and let me know what you think.
Thanks for writing 