What is the best way to attach a button to pants Blender 2.6

[Deezy Abruzzo]

I made some jeans and made a seperate round button to go along with it. I copied bone weights and weight painted it. However, when I move the avi, the button seperates outward from the jeans and it does not look attached.. Right now I only have it weighted to the hips. Weightng it to the torso and pelvis made it worse than it is now.  What it is the best way to go about this?

[Min Barzane]

you should of rigged pants and button joined together than separate if you want

[Chosen Few]

As long as it's got the same weighting as the area around it, it should move the same way, whther it's the same mesh or separate.

Assuming the button is in the middle, near the navel, I'm not sure why you would have weighted it to the hips.  That area doesn't move much, which means it should be weighted primarily to the pelvis.

 

In any case, buttons can be tricky.  They're rigid, while the fabric around them is flexible.  To keep the button from deforming, it has to be weighted 100% to just one joint.  That means the fabric area around the button it also has to be weighted 100% to that same joint, so the two don't separate as they move.  That, in turn, means you have to be careful where you place your buttons.  Certain locations simply aren't workable.