Mirroring joints after smooth bind

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# 1 19-08-2008 , 02:11 AM

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Hi, I spent ages putting together a skeleton for a left arm+hand, and then weighting it etc. So in an effort to save time i thought i could just mirror across the mesh+bones and it'd all be peachy. Unfortunately whilst this does work (after fixing the normals cos mesh turns inside out), it keeps the joint structure confined to a group that holds a -1 scale transform. Is there anyway of fixing this so theres no groups and/or a different way of mirroring it across without rebinding?

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# 2 26-08-2008 , 09:04 PM

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first of all you could save your weighting into maps. it is called "export weightmaps" I think. this way you can make use of them later at any time. be sure you allways have your skeleton finished before paint weighting!

so save your weights to map. then disconnect the skin or delete history and unlock transforms on your mesh. finish your skeleton by mirroring the bones from the skeleton menu. if you modeled from Z as frontview then select mirror around XY, behavior works well most times. now you can bind again your skin, import your weights for 1 side and mirror those weights to the other side. you might have to clean up weights a little since importing and mirroring them doesn´t work all times perfectly. but more or less this would be the way to go.

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