Quote - So I delete my chest bone to create a new one. I reparent everything. I readjust my falloffs etc... Everything looks good. I then select the Abdomen (the chests parent) and low and behold...... When I go to the joint editor I am NO LONGER able to choose my bend and side to side from the drop down menu....

Most of the time all you have to do is uncheck the affected actors from the bone that is giving the trouble then delete it and add a new one.

 

Quote - the only choices i have are "center", chest:1_smooY and hip_smooY.......... This is not the only bone that, all of a sudden, I have the ablility to now select the smooths..... WTF!? And now items that I should have been able to select are gone....

When that happens there are some things that need to be added back into the cr2.

If you are missing rotations on a joint, in the joint editor, most likley the jointZ, jointX, and twistY channels are missing on that actor. Just copy them from another channel and delete any dependencies within them so you dont end up with the wrong dependencies in the channel. On rare occasions the rotateX xrot, rotateY yrot, and rotateZ zrot channels will be missing as well. The order these are listed define the joint order as well.

Any twistX (bodypart)_ltwistx lines are for additional affected actors, and I have seen them get corrupted as well. Randomly the will be missing the otherActor line. (otherActor lHand:1) for instance, or the primaryParm line (primaryParm twistx, etc). If you are not sure what is missing just delete the bone and make a new one.

To see if you have conforming endpoints in a cr2, just search it for the word conform.

Conform should only appear at the end of the figure section just above the texture references (conforming 0) If you find conform as an endpoint at the top of a channel section, you will have to manually correct it by coping the confomingendpoint numbers to the endPoint line. Then delete the confomingendpoint line.

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