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# 1 11-12-2003 , 06:42 PM

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trying to move/rotate poly hand/joints/bones

I am having trouble moving/rotating the hand...

Here the hand is in position, i need to rotate it 90 degrees so its facing up....

https://louiseeaton.com/leftside.jpg

Here I try to just move it up and some of the skin is staying in place.....

https://louiseeaton.com/rightside.jpg

I tried grouping it together and that didnt work.

any suggestions?

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# 2 11-12-2003 , 07:39 PM

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are those vertices weighted to any bones? When you use the Edit Membership tool and remove vertices from being affected by a bone, you are actually removing their weighting from ALL bones, so when you move the skeleton, they don't move. You would need to Edit Membership and add those vertices to a bone that you want to use to affect those points.

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# 3 11-12-2003 , 08:38 PM

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Thanks, that worked beautifully. There were verticees not assigned to anything, so I just assigned them to a joint and everything moved together.

Incidentally, grouping the joints/bones with the skin and then rotating did not give good results so I left them ungrouped.

Thanks again,
Cathleen

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