topic Re: Duplicating a rigged and skinned charachter in 3ds Max Animation and Rigging Forum

Duplicating a rigged and skinned charachter

giuseppetonello — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 06:31:40 GMT

I've rigged and skinned a character with bones and skin modifier. It works perfectly.

Now I'm trying to duplicate it but the geometry pops out of place whenever I try to move the newly created geometry(with control objects).

I suppose it's a problem of names assigned automatically which don't correspond to the linked/skinned nodes.

How can I avoid this, obtaining a simple working clone of my geometry/rig?

Re: Duplicating a rigged and skinned charachter

tony.su — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 03:09:22 GMT

I don't understand your issue. I can copy a riged charachter. Could you tell me more ditails about it.

Or could you upload your scene file?

Re: Duplicating a rigged and skinned charachter

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 20:15:03 GMT

Easy. Use Skin wrap. In your case, copy the mesh. Delete skin and other modifiers. Make a pose copy of Biped or a .fig file and paste it to new biped. Then follow this great tutorial :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvjLw7d_x4

Done.

Oops. Didn't see you use bones. Make sure you can copy the bones, then it should still work (I think)

Re: Duplicating a rigged and skinned charachter

pepetd — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 22:42:29 GMT

Merge the rig from the source file into the file you are using and choose ot not rename any objects.