smartsking help :(

[breakthelocke]

so my problem now is I'm applying a smartskin in a model window, but when I open up a new action or choreography, my smartskins don't seem to be working. any ideas? thanks!

[itsjustme]

so my problem now is I'm applying a smartskin in a model window, but when I open up a new action or choreography, my smartskins don't seem to be working. any ideas? thanks!

 

Apply the Smartskin using an Action.

 

Hope that helps.

[breakthelocke]

okay, that kinda helps--- maybe you could give me a more detailed explanation though--- I've tried everyting.....adding smartskins to every bone in an action window, in the model window, and then i'll open up a new action window with my model in it, and none of the smartskins work. i need help ><

[breakthelocke]

do I have to apply the smartskins to each bone every time I open up a new action or choreography window?

[Fuchur]

Okay... you do it this way:

 

1.) Go to your modelling-window.

2.) Go to Bones-Mode.

3.) Rightclick on a bone an say: "New Smartskin" or something like that. A new Action-Window will open automatically with the bone rotated in a certain way (for example X-Rotation = 90°).

4.) In this window you adjust the smartskin you like to have, by going into the CP-Animation-Mode (dont know the exact name for it now... it is next to the skeleton-mode in the action-window).

5.) Go to a choreography and add the model in.

6.) Try the bones out.

 

If you already have the model in a choreo, you may need to hit the space-bar or close the choreo-window again and reopen it.

 

That is the way a smartskin is done. It is not done in the modelling-window but in a special Relationship-Action-Window which will pop up if you hit "New Smartskin" or the relationship itself in the PWS.

 

*Fuchur*

[breakthelocke]

so nothing was working... but I think I found the problem--- I've just been importing the skeleton that came with AM and been scaling it down to fit my model, and I think it has to do with that. Time to figure out how to add a skeleton to my model >< thanks a TON for your help though, I learned a ton!