Both DAZ Studio (via the Transfer Utility) and Blender have functionality for generating automatic weight maps. While professional content should have weight maps that are hand painted or adjusted, these functions provide a good starting point.

In the suggested Blender Workflow, the OBJ (or similar) clothing content is added to the FBX character, then parented to the armature using With Empty Weight Groups, and then the Transfer Weights function is used to transfer the weight maps from the CC Body to the clothing content. While this works for some clothing it does not work for others. For example, it does not work well for long dresses or gowns because the transferred weight maps cause the cloth to act like pants and not a long dress.

I was hoping to leverage Blender's automatic weight maps function to provide a good starting point for weight maps which can than be touched up. As such instead of using the With Empty Weight Groups, I tried the Automatic Weight Groups but the resulting file does not import into CC. While the weight paint appears good in Blender and seems to be applied to bones with the same names as those used with the Empty Weight Groups, CC gives an error that says "Mesh is bound to wrong bones". I even tried tricks like adding the content once with With Empty Weight Group and then adding it as second time With Automatic Weight Groups and then trying to transfer the automatic generated weight paint to the Empty Groups version (and then deleting the source to only contain the Empty Weight Groups version)...but in all cases as soon as I do the transfer to try to apply the automatic weight paint, it seems to cause the "mesh is bound to wrong bones" error.

Has anyone figured out how to get around this so that we can use Blender's Automatic Weight Maps functionality?

(In another post that I made earlier I tried to do the same using DAZ Studio but there I was unable to get the iClone armature into DAZ Studio in order to try if the Transfer Utility will work with a non-DAZ armature).





"We often compare ourselves to the U.S. and often they come out the best, but they only have the right to bear arms while we have the right to bare breasts"
Bowser and Blue, Busting The Breast