SmartSkin Weirdness

[svetlik]

Is this just on my machine er whut? Please try to rotate the Lbicep bone in the Smartskin window, either with the manipulator or scrubbing the Y axis in the PWS. On my machine it goes WACKO rotating spastically in large increments and the bone is way off. Even tried saving the model to disk & importing it into a new Prj. but no difference.

Recently had similart problems but was resolved with AVG anti virus but it's not working now, so any help appreciated.

SuitCoat3.prj

[robcat2075]

problem 1 - the only bone you should be rotating in a smartskin window is the bone that smartskin is for. The smartskin window says it is for "LBicepDynamic", so moving "LBicep" is going to be trouble unless there is a great reason to do it.

 

problem 2- you're still using this rig that has a zillion extra bones and constraints added on top of the geometry bones. When you are making smartskin you should be using a version of the model that is geometry bones only... geometry bones that are easy to move.

 

problem 3 - I don't think this "COGS" rig was designed with smartskin in mind. Is there a place in the instructions where it says "do your smartskins now"? If there is, I don't think this stage of the model is it.

 

problem 4 - You should be using TSM2. You'd be done already. TSM2 gives you a version of your model with just geometry bones for you to do your CP weighting and smartskinning and no constraints yet making things fly around crazy.

 

[svetlik]

Understood, I have to redo the rig from scratch using this TSM2 and version 15 if I remember right. You also used an "auto assign" at one point I think that made things quicker and that's why I could use the video of that LAT to study more closely but I don't think it's available yet. I'll keep checking to see when it is.

thanks for responding robcat.

[robcat2075]

4 hours ago, svetlik said:

You also used an "auto assign" at one point I think that made things quicker and that's why I could use the video of that LAT to study more closely but I don't think it's available yet. 

The more thorough September 5 , 2020 video uses Auto Assign at 43:53

Note that the "head" problem discussed at 1:01:37 will probably not be a problem for you. It seems to have only happened to me.

[robcat2075]

If yo get stuck on some part... be sure to ask!

[svetlik]

Ok I'm asking. Can't reach the FTP site to get v15 and the TSM2 plugin. What am I doing wrong?

[svetlik]

clicking on the Support button brings up a message re opening Microsoft Edge and trying to click on the FTP site from Edge brings up a blank page.

How does one reach the AM FTP site??

[Ganthofer]

try pasting the following into the address/location in Windows File Explorer (not the browser.

 

[Ganthofer]

ftp://ftp.hash.com/pub/

[svetlik]

It WORKED! Thank you Glen!

[svetlik]

Thought i was home free. clicked on the v15 folder and tried opening the AMCD.exe and only the MSN website comes up.

WTF??? What am I doing wrong??