<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv1407214437"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_11526"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_11525"><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7144">Hello,</div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7145"><br></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7196">I can't succeed in parenting a character to a rig with the "automatic weights".</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7285"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_16134">"Bone Heat Weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones"</i> is always returned.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7513"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7514">This method appear to work only with characters made out from cubes....<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7294"><br></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7328">The characters I use are regular and imported from Poser or created with Manuel Bastioni software.</div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7329"><br></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7387">I read many posts about crossing geometry, non-manifolds, normals, cleaning up etc...</div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7331">I spent hours trying to clean a character, removing non-manifolds, normals, no extra point, no crossing geometry etc... in vain<br></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7406"><br></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7407"><br></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7996"><b id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_8074">I have some queries :</b></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7789"><br></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7426" dir="ltr"> with <b id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_8009">"Automatic Weights"</b> and during the process :<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7427"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7790"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_17303">1. the parts of the mesh with poly/vertex problems should be left <b id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_8183">aside</b>, but on the correct part of the mesh the script <b id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_8238">should go on</b> and assign weights.</div></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7479"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_18469">2 . the parts of the mesh with poly/vertex problems should be <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_18468">shown selected</b> so that we know WHERE is the problem</div></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7647"><br></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7148"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_18471">I wonder why this algorithm is so unefficient where <b id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_8054">"envelope weights"</b> always returns a weightmap zone which is usually pretty good but too wide.</div></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7761">(spreading on opposite side of the character)</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_8005">Because of its name, would you answer but<b id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_8090"> "Envelope weights" </b>has no problems with non-manifolds or whatsoever. and does the job.<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7982"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7983"><br></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7149"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_13824">In conclusion, <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_13774">"Automatic Weights" </b>should be less restrictive, more informative and assign weightmaps<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_20783"> where it can</b><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_19683"> </b>instead of <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_19683">nowhere at all.</b><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_13774"><br></b></div></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_7151"><br></div><div class="yiv1407214437signature" id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_5953"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_16091">Thanks for your help.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_16089"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_16090">Gregus<br></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_8166"><br></div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_8167">Blender 2.78a</div><div id="yiv1407214437yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492435577560_8168"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>