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#1

I have to be doing something wrong because I’ve been successful in the past. I am attempting to rig a model with ZSpheres.

I have a ZSphere and select the mesh for rigging all is fine to that point. I select the ZSphere while in Move mode then go to Draw mode and click on a point on the mesh to draw a new ZSphere. It does not draw a ZSphere; the only way I can draw a ZSphere is to draw directly on the original ZSphere. In the past I have been able to click on the mesh and get new ZSpheres soI’ not sure what is going wrong.

I must be neglecting something but I can’t for the life of me figure it out. I have gone back over the rigging tutorials by Paul Gaboury but can’t find anything wrong with my procedure. Any help would be appreciated.

#2

Make an armature (rig) to suit your needs. Go into the rigging panel and click Select Mesh, select your mesh then adjust as necessary, then when happy hit Bind Mesh.

#3

Thanks Doug but I get that.

What I’m experiencing is a problem with the ZSpheres not being created when clicking on the mesh.

It seems now I can get it to work if once I select the mesh then toggle the transparency button then with symmetry mode on in the x axis and clicking on the mesh along the x plane only it will draw new ZSpheres; then it seems I can draw other new ZSpheres as expected by clicking on the mesh. It seems odd because when I select a mesh to rig, it opens transparent as expected, but the transparency button is not lit up. I have to toggle it though to get the correct behavior. I hope this description is clear.

Doing the above using Transpose Master and once posed and return to Mesh the model assumes the new pose. However when I move the Subdivisions back up I’m experiencing a very long delay then a crash. I’m going to restart my system to see if that helps.

#4

Many of my models have started with an armature and by making an adaptive skin from it; Then refinement of model as far as that low poly ‘cage’ can go before dividing. Seems logical to me.

#5

Click to turn on transparency then click to turn off ghost, now you will be able to create the rig by clicking on the mesh. Hope this helps.