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Edit joint cluster attributes

Edit rigid skinning

Edit rigid skin membership

 

User Guide > Rigging > Character Setup > Skinning > Edit rigid skinning > 

Edit rigid skin point weights

With the Component Editor, you can directly modify the values of individual rigid skin point weights.

To query rigid skin point weights

1. Select the rigid skin points whose weights you want to edit.
2. Select Window > General Editors > Component Editor.
3. Click on the Rigid Skins tab. The Rigid Skins section lists the weights assigned to CVs, vertices, or lattice points bound to a skeleton’s joints by rigid skinning.

To modify a rigid skin point’s weight

1. In the Component Editor’s spreadsheet, click the component data box you want to edit.
2. Enter a new value.

To modify several rigid skin point weights at once

1. In the workspace, select the points whose weights you want to edit.
2. In the Component Editor’s spreadsheet, drag through the component data boxes you want to edit.
3. Enter the value you want all the boxes to have.

To modify an entire row or column (Linux and Mac OS X only)

1. In the workspace, select the points whose weights you want to edit.
2. In the Component Editor’s spreadsheet, click one of the boxes in the row or column.
3. Click the row or column heading.
4. Enter a value for all the boxes in the row or column.

To modify an entire row or column (Windows only)

1. In the workspace, select the points whose weights you want to edit.
2. To change all the entries of a row or column, in the Component Editor’s spreadsheet, select the row or column heading.
3. -click any of the boxes in that row or column.
4. Enter a new value to update the entire row or column.