Need help riging bones to a mesh in 3d s max

[Jasonc]

I need help on how to rig bones in 3d studio max to a mesh e.g a arm if anyone could help me i would be most greatful. I have looked everywere and cant find a single god tutorial. would be nice to have a video anyway thanks if anyone helps me ^^ btw when i say rigging i mean assineing the bone's to a mesh so they can be animated

 

[Shinobi]

you need to use the "skin" modifier


if you search that in the max help it should show up with a bunch of tutorials


basically with it you can adjust envelopes/ use exclusion-inclusion/ or paint (I think)

 

[Jasonc]

So is there no way to do it with vertex's like in milkshape 3d only.. or do you need to use envelopes?

 

[junkers]

Some games dont like skin, i know how to use physique and skin. Skin is is really cool though, i just prefer to go through and assign each vert rather than use envelopes. I just feel envelopes are abit clunky.

 

[rollin]

select the envelope (=bone in milkshape) select all vertices you want to add and give them the weight 1,0

how this works is described in the help-docs

it´s cool bc you can weight vertices to more than one bone like in milk.. helps making deformations looking better

 

[Jasonc]

thx i see how it goes >_<