Bone rigging/skinning question

[Masterxilo]

Is there any way to get nice bending (like the bend modifier) when using bones and skinning (in 3ds max)? (without increasing the amount of bones)

 

Right now, with the default envelope/weights setup, I get that ugly crease and loss of volume as you can see in the above picture.

[Masterxilo]

Any ideas? How do you do this?

[omid3098]

I will ask this from our animator, if you are not in hurry. He will come to work tomorrow. (15 hours later)

it should be because of your skining..

 

Edit- you should do as this: USING THE SKIN MODIFIER

please let me know if you could solve your problem.

thanks..

[Masterxilo]

I guess so.

That would be great!

 

EDIT: Ah, didn't know how to use these Gizmos, thanks a lot, works now.

[Masterxilo]

Ah, no, it didn't help me.

These gizmos aren't exported/can't be used by le...

[omid3098]

so lets wait for him

[wailingmonkey]

some good modeling tips for overcoming poor deformation:

 

http://wiki.polycount.net/Limb_Topology

 

 

hope it's of use to you...

[omid3098]

Ah, no, it didn't help me. These gizmos aren't exported/can't be used by le...

your right, this could not be export correct to FBX.

we are working on it right now to find other way to use this effect!

 

some good modeling tips for overcoming poor deformation:http://wiki.polycount.net/Limb_Topologyhope it's of use to you...

it is very usefull for me.. thanks man

[omid3098]

sorry for my late, we are waiting for autodesk reply.

[ArBuZ]

Actually, you can't export any additional data of skinning to gmf file except vertex weights. LE doesnt support it. So the only way I see is adjusting the vertex weights and limbs topology to achieve maximum good result.

[omid3098]

we could not get any success yet!

there should be a way to plot these information to bones, the only other way our animator told me was as you said, Alex.

[Masterxilo]

Now that's bad to hear.

Well thanks anyways, I'll have to go and optimize my mesh and the vertex weights. Thanks for the link, wailingmonkey, it'll help doing so for sure.