Num bones less than num weights

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Dear All,

I have the following configuration of bones and weights in a POD file.
I did not export this file by myself so I have no control over it.

Bones (float)   : 0 1
Weights(float) : 0 1 2 3 where the sum over all weights equals 1.

Is there a policy how to handle such configurations?
The PVRShaman can display the model correctly.
It would interest me how such configuration can be reproduced as well.

kind regards,
lukas



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thanks for the awesome information.

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Hi, Lukas.

This is a strange situation. Probably, when exporting the original model, there was not a match between bones and weights numbers. This is possible to happen because it is configurable by the user. If you cannot re-export the model, I would recommend to ignore the two last weights. These are sorted like the bones. You will need to make them to add up to one doing something like this: w1 = w1/(w1+w2) w2 = w2/(w1+w2). Let me know if this helps.
Best regards.
Carlos.