Let’s say that I modeled an arm all by itself, then experimented with it by adding joints, weighting it, using an Espresso tag and even adding hair. And let’s say the armed turned out exactly as I wanted, but now it’s time to connect this arm to a main body that I created that’s just made up of polygons and nothing else. (I know that normally I’d create the arm and body together, as one piece, then add the joints, weights, Espresso tag and hair to the arm, but by accident that didn’t happen).
So, when I attempted to weld together the end points from the arm, to the main body, or even use the bridge function, it appears they’re welding or bridging, but in fact, when a polygon is moved on either side of the weld/bridge, the vertices are in fact not really connected.
I tried placing both the arm and main body as children under a Connect and welding and bridging, but that didn’t help, either. Do I have to Tools/Convert/Connect Objects, make both the arm and body as one single model, and start from scratch with joints/weighting/Expresso tag/hair of the arm, or is there another way to weld or bridge the arm shoulder onto the main body and not lose the work I did with the joints/weighting/Expresso/hair of the arm?
Thanks so much for your attention.
Robert
