topic Re: attaching clothes to rigged character in Maya Animation and Rigging Forum

attaching clothes to rigged character

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 07:18:57 GMT

Hi,

I have a custom character which was auto rigged in miximo, and would like to add clothes. I've spent a lot of time researching and trying ideas, but still naked he is. He is in many parts, but when I try and change anything then adding animations stops working. wrap deformer sucks down all of my memory and then of course system hangs.

Hopeful for a suggestion

cheers!

Mike

Re: attaching clothes to rigged character

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 12:20:17 GMT

You would place the clothes in default position of the character.

Now click the base joint in the hierarchy and click the geometry... you go to bind skin and theres now a connection between the joints of Maya with the geometry of the clothing.

You do nonetheless have to paint weights now for it to deform properly is all (:

Re: attaching clothes to rigged character

gautham.chandran47 — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 04:08:48 GMT

Like DlopezDeMedrano said... but after doing that you can copy the skin weight from the character to the cloth by selecting the character mesh and then the cloth and go to skin > copy skin weights. this will help you to deform the cloth as the character moves. And if you see some penetration between these try changing cloth geometry's skin method to "Dual Quanterion " .

Hope this helps.

Re: attaching clothes to rigged character

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 02:52:00 GMT

Thanks for that info, I just search for that issue. Sad I haven't been taught about it in class. 😞

Cheers!

Re: attaching clothes to rigged character

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:07:46 GMT

This is all very useful and it helped me too,but do you know how to export this into Unity?

Re: attaching clothes to rigged character

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:08:43 GMT

Do you know how to export this from Maya into Unity?

Re: attaching clothes to rigged character

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:56:15 GMT

Hi, to export you should be able to export as an FBX and put it into unity, alternatively there is a send to unity button under file. sometimes its doesn't like exporting in Maya so click send to motion builder and export as an FBX from there 🙂