Joint Position in Rigged Mesh

[Snow Bristol]

Hi all!

I have been having some issues with joint position. There are plenty of threads about this, none of them have a solution I'm looking for. I'm hoping one of you can help me.

So, in blender (2.59) after importing my mesh, I select it, then shift+select the rig and Ctrl+P/Set Parent To: Armature Deform and With Empty Groups. Once that's done I select the rig and go into Edit mode, then change the location of the bones to fit my mesh.

I have two theories on why this is happening:

1. I'm using the wrong version of blender, 2.59 is my favorite. I have tried new and older versions (2.49 is evil).

2. After I edit the joint position in Edit mode, I need to do something to the rig. The 'make real' button doesn't seem to exist any more.

 

Thanks!

[Ashasekayi Ra]

I'd suggest upgrading to at least Blender 2.62, preferably 2.63. It looks like your mesh suffers from the bone rotation incompatibility between SL and Blender that existed for some versions of Blender between 2.5 and 2.62.

[Nalates Urriah]

From Gaia Clary we know that Blender 2.64 will soon be here. So, expect to upgrades again soon. It is a good idea to use the Install Archive to install Blender. It allows you to have multiple copies of Blender installed without messing up the Python installs. See: Blender Archive Install

Blender 2.62 has a glitch that affects export for SL. It is fixed in 2.63a. Version 2.64 should have additional fixes for SL Export problems.

[Ashasekayi Ra]

I had no problem exporting out rigged mesh for SL using Blender 2.62. I do agree that if you don't mind using bleeding edge (eg. beta versions) of Blender, you might want to try the daily builds which always have the latest code.