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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. What Autoweight is ..................................................................................................................................... 1 What Autoweight can do for you... ................................................................................................................ 1 What Autoweight won't do for you................................................................................................................ 2 What is new in this autoweight version ...................................................................................................... 2 Where you can get an Autoweight-Tutorial ................................................................................................ 2 How You Install Autoweight ........................................................................................................................ 2 With which Max-Versions Autoweight works well ...................................................................................... 2 What the UI means ...................................................................................................................................... 3 Which Issues exist ........................................................................................................................................ 4 What the Legal Note is About ................................................................................................................. 4 How you can contact me ......................................................................................................................... 4 What you can do if you encounter strange errors .................................................................................. 4
1. WHAT AUTOWEIGHT IS
Autoweight (Automatic Weighting) is a Max Script that was designed to make skinning more comfortable and faster than it is now by manually setting skin weights. It works with bones, standard Biped from 3D Studio Max and CAT-Bones. If you have any suggestions feel free to send me an email (see 11. Contact) or start adding some features on your own. But in every case keep me updated.
Bone, Element
Erase Get
Mirror
X, Y, Z Threshold
Calculate Regions
Remove Up / Down
Get Hierachy
Pick
Add Skin
Length checkbox. Transition Defines how large the falloff will be. The falloff is used at the border of two polygon-regions. The Transition value defines how large this border will be. Defines the falloff within the transition border. The standard value is 0.5 for Transition-value = 1 and 0 for the max Transition-value + 1Change curve by clicking and dragging the curve points. Uses a local Transition-value according to the longest bone. The longest bone uses the set transition value. Every bone that is shorter as the longest bone will have a lower Transition-value according to its length.
Falloff Curve
Bone Length
occurred. You may also add an image or even better if you are allowed to attach the current obj ect youre having trouble with in a maxfile. I will then get in contact with you shortly.