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Copy Skin Weight Error: Skin Node

cmills7920 — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 05:56:39 GMT

Hello All,

Thanks for your time. I am attempting to copy skin weights from one mesh to the mesh's clothing, but I am encountering an error. It says a skin node cluster should be selected with the -desinationSkin/-dsflag. I am unsure what this means. In tutorials it snaps to without much fuss. Any advice would be appreciated. Image example attached.

Re: Copy Skin Weight Error: Skin Node

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 07:58:28 GMT

I think one history in your cloth node. So delete history and rebind the cloth, then copy the skin from body to cloth.

Re: Copy Skin Weight Error: Skin Node

cmills7920 — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:02:48 GMT

Hey thanks for the response. Upon deleting the history of the cloth and eliminating the ncloth assigned I still receive the error below. I mimicked the settings you have attached and it did not make a difference. I'm not seeing anything about this error online.

// Error: line 0: A skinCluster node should be specified with the -destinationSkin/-ds flag.

Re: Copy Skin Weight Error: Skin Node

cmills7920 — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:42:05 GMT

You're definitely on to something. I had previously messed with the shirt and pants meshes as ncloths. Now, even when I delete their history and the ncloth in the outliner they still won't accept the copied skin weights. The shoes that I did not experiment with ncloths copies the weights fine. Thanks for helping me narrow down the problem, but if history deletion and ncloth deletion doesn't work idk what to do. Export and reimporting the mesh doesn't work either.

Re: Copy Skin Weight Error: Skin Node

cmills7920 — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:46:23 GMT

I found a solution! It's not pretty though. I exported the mesh as an obj with nothing but its materials and it's normals, nothing else, then reimported it. I bound it and it copied the weights fine. Still no idea what the original issue was but at least I found a workaround. Thanks for your help!