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I am new to Blender and used Kaedim/Midjourney to create a 3D model from pictures. I have a puppet that I want to turn into a rigged 3D model to create poses and animations. I give the meshes a color, create a bone structure, select all meshes, select the armature, and hit Ctl-P, then With automatic weights. I get the error Bone Heat Weighting: Failed to find solution for one or more bones.

I found this thread that suggests joining all meshes and removing duplicate vertices. I join all meshes and the process fails. I select only the central mesh, and the process also fails. I select an object and merge vertices by distance, but above 0.002m I delete some faces, and below it I remove no vertices.

You can check the .obj model from Kaedim and the .blend model colored and with bones. (Note: the puppet is proprietary and I have a license for its use.)

How else can I fix the topology and rig this puppet? If that's impossible, what makes models from Kaedim impossible to rig?

miguelmorin
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    Hello, you have overlapping vertices, select all in Edit mode and press M > Merge by Distance and parent again – moonboots Apr 10 '23 at 16:04
  • Thank you moonboots. I just tried again, and now it worked. I don't understand what I did wrong the first time, but you saved me a lot of work. Can you please write an answer? – miguelmorin Apr 10 '23 at 16:46

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This is how I could rig your model with automatic weights:

Starting from your file, select the body, go to edit mode, select all, press Ctrl E > Clear Sharp.

Then press M (merge by distance 0.0001)

Then press Aly J (Tris to Quads).

Now in object mode you can parent the body to the armature with Ctrl P > Automatic weights.

For the others spare parts you can simply select one of them, shift select the armature, go to pose mode, select the relevant bone and press Ctrl P > Bone. Repeat for all.

You will need some manual weight paint tweaks, anyway.

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josh sanfelici
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  • Thank you for the quick solution. I tried the comment from moonbots and that did it. I don't understand why it didn't work the first time; probably because I'm new to Blender. – miguelmorin Apr 10 '23 at 16:48
  • I edited the meshes to remove some kinks (Biset tool + fill), removing vertices by distance, and the rigging failed with the same message. I then tried your method and it worked, so I'm accepting it. – miguelmorin Apr 16 '23 at 07:29
  • Can you explain the advantage of triangles to quads for rigging? – miguelmorin Apr 16 '23 at 07:30