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Does Animator have weights for the bones or not? I thought I remembered someone saying it did, but you have to set them manually, but I can't remember.

Alexander Smith Wrote:Does Animator have weights for the bones or not? I thought I remembered someone saying it did, but you have to set them manually, but I can't remember.

Yup, you need to set them at the vertex level. Double click on a vertex, or when you use set bone do it there to multiple vertexes at once.

[>] Brian

Great! I've been using weights in Blender with IK and all, and it's really useful.

sorry but would you mind telling me what they are or should i do it myself?

Bones weights tell the bone how much the vertexes OF that bone are affected when the bone moves or rotates. So if the bone moved X 50, and the vertexes were weight 1.0, then the vertexes would move X 50. However, if the vertex weight was .5 the vertexes would move X 25. It's kind of complicated, but if you google it, you can find some info on the subject.

Also I believe that with weights you can make a single bone taht controls 3 splines in the middle of a cylinder bend the cylinder into a rounded angle instead of a sharp angle.