Duplicating a rigged and skinned charachter

[giuseppetonello]

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?

[tony.su]

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?

[Anonymous]

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)

[pepetd]

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