编辑“Portrait modding”（章节）

==== Animation ====

To get better deformations on your mesh you should cut it up (add more splits) to get more polygons where the mesh will deform.

Now let’s continue to your skeleton, the skinning of the character, animating it and exporting it. If you have created the skeleton already with the structure which can be seen above you need to skin the meshes to it. To do this go to the "Rigging" menu in Maya > Skin > Bind Skin and press the options box. Make sure your settings looks like in the picture below, important is to have 4 max influences and uncheck "Remove unused influences".

[[File:Portrait skinning settings.jpg]]

''Portrait skinning settings''

When you have tweaked the skinning, by using the Paint Skin Weights Tool for each mesh, you need to animate it. First you need to give the root joint an animation attribute which will control where your animations start and where they end. To do this, select the root joint, open the export window and press "add animation attr." while having the correct exporting project selected (in which you might have a few animation strings already specified). This will add a new attribute to your joint which can be seen in the Channel Box. If you already had some animation strings in your Stellaris export project, in the clausewitz.txt file, these can now be found in the animation attribute on the root joint. You need to have at least one called "none" and one other with whatever name you prefer. If you don't have an animation called "none" you can add one manually if you select the root joint, go to "Modify" and select "Edit Attribute". In the new window, select the animation attribute and click on any slot under "Enum Names" to add a new state and name it "none".

Now when you animate your character you need to set a key on the animation attribute on the root joint for where your animations start with "idle" (for example) and "none" where they end. If done correctly, it should look like in Fig.5, each pillar is an animation and the space between where the graph is on 0 value it is "none".

[[File:Portrait rigging fig5.jpg]]

''Fig.5: Graph of “animation” attribute for “root” joint''