Weights, vertices poke, cap creating, shadows on mesh SOLVED

Hi! I tried this but the top went from 2200 to 8000 verts and 14.000 poly's... which is a bit much for just a top  Not sure what you meant with this. You said reference mesh, as in for mapping the UV1?

I figured that out . Next time you can make a cap by selecting extruding edges (select all edges, click E, then click S and scale them down. Switch to vertex mode and click Alt+M to connect all vertices at center), and if you see that some newly created faces look inside instead of outside, you need to flip direction of normals on selected faces. Next step after extruding would be creating new uv for the cap, if you want to make a separate texture for it. Uv_1 will be fine in this case.

You need to click each vertex (you have doubles there, by the way, so you can remove doubles before deleting joints assignment) to delete joint assignment. Some of vertices are assigned only to one bone, other are assigned to 2 bones.


I think it did prevent from inheriting correct weight from reference mesh. When you transfer data from your mesh it should be clean of any weights/joint assignment. Each vertex can be assigned to as many bones as needed, total weight of all bones will be 1.000 (one). If you vertex assigned to 2 bones (joints) and total weight is 1.000, you can't assign any more weight than it's already assigned. For future, if you see that your mesh works properly and there is only one glitch in particular place, you can re-assign weights to part of the mesh. Let's say you want to fix weights on the cap by transferring weights from another mesh. What I would do, I would detach the cap only, transfer weights to it, append in the file with working mesh, delete cap faces with incorrect weights and join 2 meshes in one (main mesh sans cap + cap with new weights). For me it's easier and faster to do the way I posted before, particularly if I had to fix weights on the cap because it's assigned only to one bone. But in other cases I would use the method I just wrote about.