[Maya Skeleton Sizing Question]

Nevermind I found the answer!

 

open the .dae file in a text editor. Find this: <unit name="centimeter" meter="0.01"/> and change it to this: <unit name="centimeter" meter="1.0"/>

[Mesh clothing sizes]

When you are modeling, how do you know what size to make the mesh before uploading it?  Is there a way to change the values in your program?  I use Maya..

[Maya Skeleton Sizing Question]

Sorry if this has already been answered elsewhere, if so, please just point me in the right direction.

 

I uploaded my mesh clothing which came out to be incredibly small in world.  I read here on the forums that SL uses Meters so I changed my Maya work space to display in Meters, but the avatar skeleton is very small.  Is there a way for me to get the skeleton to be the correct size so I don't have to resize once I get the mesh in world?

Thank you!

[Mesh Clothing Help]

Thanks for both of your answers.  I'm not sure what I did wrong, but I did smooth bind and weighting again and reuploaded and this time it worked.  However, when I wear the item, it's positioned too far back on my avatar.  I am not sure why...I thought I had it over a good place on the skeleton, but I guess I'll have to do some tweaking yet.

Seems that is one thing there is a lot of when you first start out, tweaking.  As soon as I get this positioned right, I'm saving the avatar mesh with the skeleton in the correct placement so I don't have to keep wasting money on upload fees.

Ah, brings me back to the days of learning to sculpt LOL.

[Mesh Clothing Help]

First, if it makes any difference, I am using Maya 2010.

I created a clothing mesh, got it skinned and weighted, and got it uploaded into Second Life.  However, when I go to "wear" my clothing, it attaches to my right hand as any default object would.  From what I understand the clothing should be exactly where I had placed it on te body in maya if it was rigged correctly.  

Is there any easy way to tell me what I've done wrong?  Or did I just completely screw it up?  
I thought this was going to be a lot easier to do, but I've now been screwing with this for days, stuck on not even being able to get the mesh to upload after clicking the weighting option in SL, but now it uploads and isn't being worn correctly.  I'm just about ready to give up!  Please help!!!!

Thank you! 

[I am able to upload full body rigged mesh not able to upload piece of cloth rigged mesh]

What I'm using only has 19 joints... Could this be the problem?  Could you direct me to a correct download if so?  I downloaded this avatar file that someone posted the link to here on the forums..

[Mesh Clothing (( MAYA ))]

I'll be sure to do that

[I am able to upload full body rigged mesh not able to upload piece of cloth rigged mesh]

Thanks for the information. I will check into this as soon as I can get to my computer today.

[Rigging Mesh Clothing]

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mesh/Exporting_a_mesh_from_Maya#Bones_and_rigging

[I am able to upload full body rigged mesh not able to upload piece of cloth rigged mesh]

I did as was said, unselecting remove unused influences, and my button still disappears when I select the weighting option in SL upload.  Could someone give me a run down of what SHOULD be selected on the smooth bind options window?  Maybe one of my other settings is amiss...

[Mesh Clothing (( MAYA ))]

Thank You for your help

[Mesh Clothing (( MAYA ))]

I understand and have found tutorials on rigging the clothing meshes I create to bring them into SL, but I don't understand what this weight thing is all about?  Is this something that happens when I'm rigging the clothing in Maya, or something I select upon upload into Second Life?  I haven't actually created any clothing meshes yet and brought them in because I tend to like to understand what I'm doing before I actually do it lol. 

Thanks for any information.

[Rigged Clothing in Maya: recommended plug-ins?]

Collada if you don't have it for exporting as a .dae but I'm sure you do.  Other than that I dunno because I just started looking in to mesh clothing today myself.