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Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1

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# 1 16-09-2006 , 01:37 AM

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Hi all.
I have a set of characters and they have their heads all set up with blend shapes. But to make the heads slightly different to each other I have used the Soft modification tool. But how do I bake or delete the cluster from history without it reverting back before it was applied?

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# 2 17-09-2006 , 07:46 AM

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what about deleting history?

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# 3 17-09-2006 , 02:11 PM

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Hi there. I have blend shapes connected to the head which will be lost if I delete history.

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# 4 17-09-2006 , 02:24 PM

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what I usually do - pose the skeleton. duplicate the geometry - tweak it - delete history + blindnodes - connect as blendshape.

which means you can disconnect/connect your blendshapes as often as you need. it does not make any difference as long as you don´t delete history on your bound geometry. but blendshapes don´t get enveloped to the skeleton, so -
explain to me if I got something wrong?

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