UE1 - UT skinning in maya

[jhonny]

hi
i m trying to skin a character in maya, i have a character, i had rigg also,but i m unable to skin it , actually i m just started a skinning in maya, i had skin in max but nt in maya, so can any body help me in this problem ? just tell me the starting of skinning , like how to put the skin on the character ? means bind it ? and what to select while putting a skin to it ?i know the how to give weight to vertex, just i need the little help with starting, so can help me with the starting up ???




your regards
jhonny

 

[Forgetful]

You have to create a material with the hyper shade editor. The Hypershade editor is located in Windows > Rendering Editors > Hypershade. Click on the sphere labeled "Lambert" This will create you a new material in the main Hypershade window. From there click on that texture and the press "ctrl + A"

This will bring up the materials properties. You want to find the box labeled color and click the checked box beside it. This will pop up a menu of possible things you can assign to the color out property of that texture. You want to click picture of the mountain labeled file. From there you can browse for your "UV snapshot" or base texture.

The last thing to do is assign the material you just created to your model. With the material highlighted in the main Hypershade window middle mouse button drag that material onto your model and let go.

I'm assuming you have a base texture with a UV snapshot ready to paint.