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PuppetSoul AutoSkin

This autoskin is the most powerfull you can find on the market. It allow you to create a skinning that is, usually, 75% good.

• Stiffness : 0 is really loose, 1 is loos and usually good, 10 is stiff.
• Prune : Prune small weight values below this thresold

To acheive the autoskin :

• From an hierarchy (for instance root) tag ‘excluded’ joints that are not in the skin

  

  • You can with this menu, add , remove, or check excludec joints

• Select the root joint and the mesh

• Hit ‘AutoSkin’

• Wait a bit, after a moment, the autoskinned is here!

The algorythm is based on the Baran & Jovan Popovic's "Pinocchio” . It works like a charm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EklzamltEgM

AutoSkin Dual Layer

Most of the time, a stiff value is good for some part, and a loose value is better for others.

You can do a dual Layers : this create a setup with ngSkinTools (need to be installed) with two layers with separate settings. You can then blend between both