[Empyrean-devel] [Fwd: Re: boss model]

[Chad A. <ae...@vr...>]

well, then...  ;)

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Subject: 	Re: boss model
Date: 	Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:29:04 -0600
From: 	Anson Call <an...@ia...>
To: 	Chad Austin <ae...@vr...>
References: 	<41C...@vr...>



I've told my students repeatedly to delete their modeling history. 
There are a host of other problems that can occur besides this spiking. 
One of which is the model disappearing altogether, which isn't fun.
On Dec 18, 2004, at 3:06 AM, Chad Austin wrote:

> From Robert Brantseg:
>> Bind pose and attack animation (the animations aren't quite polished)
>
> Well if there's one major lesson we've learned this year, it's that if 
> you're doing skeletal animation in Maya, you definitely should 
> collapse your mesh (delete history) before skinning it.  If you don't, 
> things randomly spike everywhere.  Hopefully we can find a way to 
> reskin these models...
>
> Maybe this is something that should be investigated/explained in the 
> animation class.
>
>
Anson Call
Assistant Professor
3D Modeling, Rendering and Animation
Deptartment of Architecture, Art and Design
College of Design, 488
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