Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
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# 1 17-08-2014 , 08:35 AM
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Rigging body with eyeball

Hi all, I'm a newbie practicing Maya rigging body with a simple snail model, however here is some issue I'm facing.

Please refer to the image attached.

Here is the left eye of snail, I parented the eyeball to the most upper joint, so that it able to move around with the eye part. (Not head, not sure what it called.)

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Then I choose the joints and body only, and Smooth Bind.

So when I move around the control, here is what happened. The shape of the eye part changed and not covering the eyeball properly.

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Is it my model problem? Or is there any way to solve it?

Thank you.


** UPDATE

Actually I tried to Edit paint Skin Weights before I create this thread but failed, however I just tried again and it seems work....

Is this a correct method?
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Last edited by IreneLing; 17-08-2014 at 08:52 AM.
# 2 17-08-2014 , 05:15 PM
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parenting mesh to the joint isn't a good idea. make another joint for the eye, connect it to the main skeleton, and bind the eye to it.

# 3 17-08-2014 , 08:40 PM
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Bind or add influence from the eye to the joint that controls the skin around the eye, then go to paint skin weights tool and have maximum value + strength and press flood when having the eye selected in the perspective, and the joint that should control it in the paint skin weights options


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