Regroup command distorts meshes

[Jasumi]

I've been having problems with regrouping my meshes. It seems as though the shoulders and elbows are always distorted. However, when I export all the parts without regrouping, all is animating correctly. How can I work my way around this? I need to regroup my mesh into two groups.

[HystericalParoxysm]

Are you making sure to double-check your comments on the regrouped parts before exporting? The comments have to be correct - especially NumSkinWeights set to 3. It usually combines comments when regrouping, and you have to set those back to what they were before, with NumSkinWeights correct.

[Jasumi]

OMG thank so much! I did the alpha trick and now it recolers perfectly!

About the regrouping, I simply renamed all the other parts as body in the comments. For some reason (even though I did originally fix the comments) Milkshape was still behaving erratically. I think I'll just have to re-install it.

But again, thank you. Without your help I would have gone insane by now. lol

[porkypine]

Usually when Milkshape goes whacky - if closing and reopening it doesn't work, try rebooting your computer first. I find that going back and forth from Milkshape to SimPE to the game and back and forth tends to get the pointers going crosseyed and they lock or get cranky. A reboot solves a lot of those types of problems.

The best way to avoid resource problems is to only open one program at a time, Simpe, extract your clone. close it properly, Open Milkshape - import your file, fix it up, etc, export it, close Milkshape. Open SimPE - import your modified mesh, save, close SimPE, copy file to you game folders and load your game.

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Close your game and go to Milkshape to work on your mesh, etc. repeat.

Oh! And I copy my project files into their own folder outside the EA subfolder, that helps keep the files from hiccuping. I only do that if I am making new meshes. Recolors stay where they originals are. I copy my modified files into the EA directory. I have less trouble that way.