Face groups

herhey2000_1eb76d7692

I am currently rigging a prop for daz studio.

When I read tutorials on rigging (years ago), most said to assign all polygons not being used in your rigging, to one face group (default for example).

The object I imported before I started rigging had 4 different face groups.

Default was one of them, and a few others that were numbered basically.

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there would be any benefit to assign all "unused" polygons to one group. (besides keeping things tidy)

Richard Haseltine

groups can be useful, but they are not essential (and daz Studio does have a means to edit them). Face groups

• can help with figure set up - when creating a new figure, if you assign the groups to bones then the bones will be placed inside the boundign box of the group
• can help with weight-editing - you can fill each group with 100% weight for the matching bone
• can help with posing - assign the group as a bone's selection group and clicking on it will select the bone (by default only if the figure it selected)

herhey2000_1eb76d7692

Great, thank you for replying and for the info.

I mainly use them for weight editing myself.