Weights, bones, Influencer? is it a sickness?
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I can answer this for Blender at least, but maybe it'll give a hint for 3D Max too. When you're weighting the parts of your mesh to bones in your armature, it's assigning a value of 0 (no influence), 1 (total influence), or somewhere in between to each vertex. It seems like all vertices must be assigned to at least one bone, even if it's just a static "this item doesn't move" bone.
Using weight paint in Blender is kind of imprecise for this, but in edit mode, you can see the actual weight value for each vertex in the right-hand properties menu (which you open by pressing N from the standard 3D view). Each vertex will need to be assigned a total of 1 weight to one or more bones (1 to 1 bone, or 0.5 each to 2 bones, or 0.25 to one bone and 0.75 to another, etc.). No vertex can be assigned a total of more than 1. Here's what it looks like (I also have "Show Weights" enabled, which can be found further down that same menu, under Mesh Display):
I hope I'm explaining this right - I'm still rather new too, but this is how I fixed this error for mine!
Also, I believe this check and error is kinda new, as I had a model that had vertices with no assigned bone which was working a few days ago, but suddenly stopped working with this same error until I fixed the weights.
Using weight paint in Blender is kind of imprecise for this, but in edit mode, you can see the actual weight value for each vertex in the right-hand properties menu (which you open by pressing N from the standard 3D view). Each vertex will need to be assigned a total of 1 weight to one or more bones (1 to 1 bone, or 0.5 each to 2 bones, or 0.25 to one bone and 0.75 to another, etc.). No vertex can be assigned a total of more than 1. Here's what it looks like (I also have "Show Weights" enabled, which can be found further down that same menu, under Mesh Display):
I hope I'm explaining this right - I'm still rather new too, but this is how I fixed this error for mine!
Also, I believe this check and error is kinda new, as I had a model that had vertices with no assigned bone which was working a few days ago, but suddenly stopped working with this same error until I fixed the weights.
i had to decimate mijn lod models a bit and it works
Hello planet coasters,
i have made an animated stargate, see (completed selection) and when i apply the bones its building without errors. but then when i animated the bones it gives the following error: Weights for influencers should sum to one [Bad Bone Weights]
"Weights for influencers should sum to one :"
The pre-build checks failed. [ugcPreBuildFailed]
"Prebuild failed. :"
Build process failed. [ugcBuilderFailed]
"Conversion process returned a non zero exit code: 1"
does anyone know what i am doing wrong ?
kind regards,
Raptor-88
i have made an animated stargate, see (completed selection) and when i apply the bones its building without errors. but then when i animated the bones it gives the following error: Weights for influencers should sum to one [Bad Bone Weights]
"Weights for influencers should sum to one :"
The pre-build checks failed. [ugcPreBuildFailed]
"Prebuild failed. :"
Build process failed. [ugcBuilderFailed]
"Conversion process returned a non zero exit code: 1"
does anyone know what i am doing wrong ?
kind regards,
Raptor-88
For folks still having trouble with this error (in Blender, anyway), I found something else that can cause it. If it's an item you've been working on for a while, or maybe started based on another functioning object, there might be leftover data that is causing a problem. Check in the Object Data tab to see if there are more vertex groups than there should be.
For example, I started a new piece based on one of my signs, and was getting this error. The piece only has one bone, and all vertices were attached to it 100%.
However, when I checked the Object Data tab, my mesh still had vertex groups from previous bones that I had since deleted. Like so:
Since my armature only has one bone (labeled "Bone" because I'm creative like that), the other two were causing problems. (Making the influencers sum to more than 1). So, I deleted the extra vertex groups by selecting them and pressing the minus sign next to the box. So now I have this:
And now the object uploads without the error. (Make sure you check all of your meshes and all LOD levels.)
I hope this helps someone!
For example, I started a new piece based on one of my signs, and was getting this error. The piece only has one bone, and all vertices were attached to it 100%.
However, when I checked the Object Data tab, my mesh still had vertex groups from previous bones that I had since deleted. Like so:
Since my armature only has one bone (labeled "Bone" because I'm creative like that), the other two were causing problems. (Making the influencers sum to more than 1). So, I deleted the extra vertex groups by selecting them and pressing the minus sign next to the box. So now I have this:
And now the object uploads without the error. (Make sure you check all of your meshes and all LOD levels.)
I hope this helps someone!