STEP 29 OF 67 · YOU ARE THE TECHNICAL ARTIST
Check the skeleton and skin weights
Bend shoulders, elbows, knees, fingers and waist. Fix any stretching or clothes poking through.
How to do it
- Pose the extremes in Character Creator.
- Fix problems with the weight tools or Blender's weight paint mode.
How AI speeds this up
The gate lists the poses to check, so nothing is missed.
Example from a sample game
Ashfall: fixed the cloak clipping through the thigh in a deep crouch.
Before you move on
In Duke Forger, this step's gate checks:
- You upload proofScreenshots of extreme poses with no stretching
Words to know
- Rig
- The skeleton and controls inside a model that make it move.
- Skin weights
- Which bones move which parts of a model or its clothes.
Do step 29 on your own game
Start freeIncluded in Creator, Academy and Studio. Duke drafts it with you and checks it before step 30 opens.