This is only a guess, but do you need to specify -ss and -ds, to tell Maya
which skinCluster you want to copy from and to? The (very sparse) examples
use -ss and -ds.
On Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 4:56:37 AM UTC+11, Martin Berisso wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi all!
>
> I am developing this in MEL, but the issue should be the same for both
> languages, any help is very welcome!
>
> I have many skinned meshes for a single character, and I need to turn
> those into a single one.
>
> My process was extrapolated from a script I found around (that I am not
> sure who posted, sry about that), but it was meant to make a "skin wrap" >
> create independent skinning without direct dependencies to source object, I
> made it work for several objects into a single one.
>
>
> *so my workflow atm is:*
>
> - manually select the source objects, duplicate, combine, delete history >
> clean single object
>
> - select again the source objects, then select my "target" single object
> - *run the script below* which asigns a new skinning that unifies all the
> bones used in all the individual objects
>
> - select again the source objects, select my target, go to
> rigginMenu/skin/copy skin weights
>
> and it works. perfectly. one to one weighting on every vertex.
>
>
> *my problem:*
>
> if I add the code for the weight copy that shoots up in the log:
>
> copySkinWeights -noMirror -surfaceAssociation closestPoint
> -influenceAssociation closestJoint;
>
> the result is all the weights are gobbled up, pretty much as if i had not
> run anything.
> if I go and open the copy skin weights details and click "apply", it will
> also give a result that looks as if i had not done anything (no error
> prompted)
>
> again, if I just manually click on the "copy skin weights" button, it will
> work perfectly.. but i want to do this process in tons of animated items..
> and any change on the source objects will also mean having to do it again..
> so any step that can be avoided will mean a lot of time in the end..
>
> well... if anybody can shoot some light on this, would be much appreciated!
>
> Martin
>
>
>
>
> my code atm, commented the area that should work but.. doesnt.
>
>
> // select all source objects > add target object to selection > run
> proc CopySkinFromMultipleObjects (){
> string $joints[];
> string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;
> string $targetObject = $sel[(size($sel)-1)];
> print ("target: "+ $targetObject + "\n\n");
>
> for ($i = 0; $i<size($sel)-1; $i++)
> {
> string $cluster = `findRelatedSkinCluster $sel[$i]`;
> string $newJoints[] = `listConnections -s 1 -d 0 ($cluster +
> ".matrix")`;
> appendStringArray $joints $newJoints (size($newJoints));
> }
>
> stringArrayRemoveDuplicates $joints;
>
> for ($j=0; $j < size($joints); $j++){
> //print ($joints[$j]+"\n");
> }
>
> select -r $targetObject;
> select -add $joints;
> SmoothBindSkin -tsb -ta;
>
> /*
> select -r $sel;
>
>
> copySkinWeights -noMirror -surfaceAssociation closestPoint
> -influenceAssociation closestJoint;
>
> select -r $targetObject;
> doBakeNonDefHistory( 1, {"prePost" });
> */
> }
> CopySkinFromMultipleObjects ();
>
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