When I reimported a my own sculpted character I got the bones is missing materials error. That should be a easy fix, but I dont know how. Can anyone assist me?
What I do is:

I want the headshape I sculpted in 3DCoat into CharacterCreator as I cannot get that shape with the morphs in CharacterCreator. I tried with Mudbox but Mudbox cannot export to fbx 2012 and when I send it back to Maya, the bones dont follow.



When rebinding and copying skinweights to my character I cant seem to get the characters materials to the character. I belive this can be fixed in CharacterCreator after a reimport.



Heres the error I get in CharacterCreator:



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I managed to sculpt my desired headshape in Maya so the material error is no longer a error but the sculpted head didnt follow when reimporting the FBX, it stays as the normal headshape from CharacterCreator.


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It might work better to import an OBJ for a new morph slider, rather than the modified FBX.

Thanks, the OBJ export worked but then the animation data and the facial morphs didnt follow. What can I do to fix that? I tried import it in 3DXChange pipeline but it only found the OBJ file.


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What I need is a full head X scale but I cannot come up with a way to do it without screwing up the rest of the topology.


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I thought you were using CC? Are you not?

CC can import OBJs as morphs. You have the further option of using those morphed characters in the morph animator in iClone.

If you need actual bone-scaling morphs, you can import them as you would clothing, but you cannot use them in the morph animator. It only accepts mesh-morphs.

Yes, Im using CharacterCreator :) So it would be export as OBJ > sculpt the desired shape > export as OBJ from Maya > Import the morph to CharacterCreator? Im trying to follow this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8aoDNZ0QGU&t= but it dosent show how to "sculpt a shape" so it can be used in a morph. Hope you got me.


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I cannnot find a Maya sculpting to CC tutorial, but I fouund a Zbrush one that might be helpful for understanding.


I think Tokomotion uses the free Sculptris for making morphs.

Thanks alot, that was brilliant! Yes Tokomotion is using Sculptris but I own zBrush so no problem :) Thanks again, Rampa!


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