Transfer skin weights?

[Steve Davy]

Is there any technique or tool for projecting skin weights from one model to another similar to how you can transfer UVs using the Transfer Attributes tool?

I need to get the weights from one mesh to another. I cannot export weights as certain sections have been removed from the destination mesh and vertex order has changed, however the weights on the remaining areas should all still work if I could just project them.

Never come across a need for this or seen any evidence it can be done.... but worth asking!

[og...@gmx.at]

MGear can do that.

https://youtu.be/yqXwFWAIjKo

Or this tool here.

https://iboxshare.com/AKEric/skinner

[mikael persson]

Is the "copy skin weights" with raycast giving you useless results?

Mikael

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[Armin]

Did you try the maya native copy skin weights command?
Rigging menu set > skin > copy skin weights.

If you have to work a lot with skinning and weights
I can recommend ngskin tools.
It is well worth the money. (65$ for a single personal license)
makes it a lot easier.
https://www.ngskintools.com/
It also has a free evaluation version.

I too can highly recommend mgear for rigging and skinning.

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[Meng-Yang Lu]

+1 to ngSkin Tools and copy weights.  Use it every day and honestly don't know how I rigged all these years without it.

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[stephenkmann]

I've never used ngSkinTools and get pretty good results with copy skin wts.. 

one big tip though.. is to create GOOD joint labels... 

I made a quick video about this a while back about mirroring. but it holds true for coping wts as well

https://youtu.be/vJgdx7KUtHM

hth

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