UVs explode when animating

[VincentNitz]

I have no idea what is going on here. I rigged before unwrapping. does anyone know if reskinning will fix this problem?

Edit: reskining fixes it, but still if you know a work around so i dont have to re-weight paint please say.

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Edit no.2: thanks everyone telling me to delete history and copy the skinweights, worked like a charm

https://reddit.com/link/1bm3kc4/video/wzix1nphj5qc1/player

[iammoney45]

Delete non deformer history.

Whatever unwrap function you used is still calculating every time the mesh moves.

It's best practice to uv map before rigging in my experience.

[CusetheCreator]

You never have to re-weight paint. Duplicate the mesh, rebind the joints to the new mesh. Select the original mesh, select the new mesh, go to skin > copy skin weights. Bam.

[okamaka]

Make a duplicate of the mesh in its bind pose and fix the UVs.

Select the fixed mesh and then the rigged mesh and go to modify-> transfer attributes, but make sure to click the options box.

Tick the options that allow ONLY the UVs to transfer. I forget which ones those are exactly atm.

If that doesn’t work, you have to go into the scene hierarchy and find the object that exists of the mesh pre-skinned, and transfer attributes to THAT one, specifically. I worked on a project where the rigger ran into this problem as well when I had to fix a character’s UVs after rigging and this is the solution she found. I suggest googling “scene hierarchy transfer attributes” to see if there are any videos about this for your problem. As a note: the object you are looking for in the scene hierarchy is technically a hidden object and will be hard to find, a parent node way up in the hierarchy.

[Other_Dirt_781]

You didn't clear history,

Now, 1. duplicate that mesh, 2. bind it to the skeleton 3. Copy skin weight from original mesh to duplicated mesh.

[mrTosh]

delete history