Attaching the head to a body

[Franco Riverti]

Hi, I’m trying to attach the sculpted head to a body. I though it would be better to do it before creating the clothes, texture, hair and animation. But I’m not really sure what’s the best approach to do it. Is it possible to attach the head with the multires to a different body to then rig and animate?

[Omar Domenech]

I believe it can do done, yes. I guess what you mostly need is for the loops at the neck part in the body and the neck part in the head, to have the same number of vertices, so they have to match in quantity. If the loop around the neck head has 20 verts, then the neck body should have 20 verts in the loop as well. If not then there’s some serious re-modeling to do to to get them to match. Of course you could do some of the tricks of 4 edges to 1 and all that thing, but I guess you should have messy topology in the neck if it’s going to be rigged and animated.

[Franco Riverti]

Thanks for the reply although I’m still wondering. Can I keep the details (such as pores, wrinkles and such) combining a head to another rigged body? Because when I join the head with the multires to the body the multires seems to stop working and I lose those important details. Sorry, it’s a bit hard to explain it

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Franco,

How do you join them? If you are using CTRL+J, then you should first Select the body and then the head; that way the body becomes part of the head Object and thus has the head’s Modifiers. If you Join the head to the Body, you lose the head’s Modifiers.

[Omar Domenech]

Yes as Martin says. Though if the body has modifiers, the head will eat them, in other words, either the head modifiers are going to be replaced or the body modifiers are going to be replaced. Hopefully the body doesn’t have any. 

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