Splitting a rigged skin

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have a character which is fully rigged, however, the clothes and the body are all part of the same skin.

Is there a way where I can keep the rig in tact and split the clothes from the body? (keeping the 'clothes' rigged just able to be individually selected)

Thanks,

Ed

[Fadhil_Farook · Accepted solution]

Try making 2 copies of the character and deleting the clothe on character and the body from the other. This will sure affect the skin modifier but try it for testing.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply. I tried out your idea and it worked.

I ended up copying the skin and converting the copied item to an editable mesh.

I then deleted all parts that were not clothes and repositioned the remaining over the original skin.

I saved the envelopes from the original skin and then converted the clothes to 'skin'.

I loaded the saved envelopes onto the clothes and then it all worked as I desired.

Many thanks for the help