Greyed out Joints and Skin weight on import from 3DS MAX

[Shawn Goodfellow]

Okay guys, I'm having a lot of trouble with importing mesh to SL. I am using 3DS Max 2011. So I made this simple dress, weighted it right and everything, added the bones to it, everything works fine so I was happy with it. However, every single time I try to import the skin weight and joint positions are greyed out! I exported it from open collada, that didnt work, then from Autodesk Collada, no luck. I select them all and press export selected all the time too.. It doesnt make sense to me as to why it wouldnt work. Everything is there and should work. I got my Skeleton from SLAV 3Ds Max importer, so I figured it should work if it did for others. Please help me! Thanks!

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

Did you check the dae file with a text editor to see if all your 26 bones are listed? 3ds max only puts the used bones into the dae file and SL wants to see all 26.

[Shawn Goodfellow]

Yeah! thats what fixed it for me, thanks though for helping Now my next problem is when i wear the mesh it becomes huuuuuuuuugeeeee .

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

that's a scaling issue, I think of the skeleton...if you use the SLAv plugin, try importing at scale 1.0 instead of the default 40.0

[Shawn Goodfellow]

but its all weighted already can i change it now?