Animation Mesh Deforms

[blade]

Hi,

I'm new at this, I managed to export from 3dmax an animation into TVA file.

However, when I run the animation in truevision, the mesh deforms, like the actor is dragging itself, it looks like sharp triangles pointing in opposite direction as actor moves.

Is there anything I should change or look into?

Many thanks for your help.

[pabloescobar]

I had this problem some time ago. You must be sure ALL vertex have 100% bone influence, otherwise those vertexes will stand in same place, while other vertex will animate with the bone (causing this odd effect).

[blade]

Pablo,

Thanks for your response, I think you are right, but maybe you can explain what I need to do?

In 3D max it looks good, no problems. I checked it now in the Model Viewer (.x and tva) and here it is the same problem as in my TrueVision app.

How do I check 100% bone influence for all vertex? As you can guess, I'm also new with 3D max.

Thanks and regards.

[pabloescobar]

Dont have any function that do this for you.. its a very boring task. So, its better you do correcly first, to avoid this later.

The way i do:
Normally, just after i use the Skin modifier, i just set all vertex to 0 (zero) influence... then i start, bone by bone, ajusting the influences until i get 100%... at end, all vertex are ok.
I have abit more work this way, but im 100% sure all vertex are fine and also i have more "freedom" to do fine-tunning on some parts of model.

[SylvainTV]

Make sure also that there is no more than 4 bone influences per vertex.

With the skin modifier, you can have a table with all bone influences in MAX as far as I know, you can see if one vertex hasn't any influence or too many.