SkinLayer Studio Ep.7 | Layer Group · Faster Finger Weights | OtakuSolutions

SkinLayer Studio Ep.7 | Layer Group · Faster Finger Weights | OtakuSolutions This video covers fingers and thumb — the slowest, most precise part of skinning. With Layer Group you control fingertip joints non-destructively and cut the work time down. Product link: https://otakusolutions.com/en/skin-la... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 What's in this video ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔧 Thin bone thickness in the viewport so dense finger joints stay readable. ✨ Right-click Create Layer Group and nest weight masks up to two levels. 📖 Copy and Paste masks from Finger 4 (pinky) to Finger 1 (index) to skip repeat work. 📁 Align low-poly cartoon topology in Surface mode, and use the eyedropper — a tool Maya does not have. ⏱ Timestamps 00:00 Start 00:06 Why finger skinning needs to be both precise and fast 00:39 Scale bone thickness to 0.002 for a clearer view 00:56 Biped finger numbers: 0 thumb through 4 pinky 01:29 「Key feature」 Create Layer Group and fold-joint mask filtering 02:28 Nesting rule: two groups max, and why that stays fast 03:53 Sort the Fingers layer stack and disable idle layers 04:40 Define Finger 4 and check borders in shader mode (5) 05:06 Copy Mask / Paste Mask to neighboring fingers 05:38 Focus zoom (F) for simple low-poly vertex edits 06:17 Control finger borders on one side in Surface brush mode 07:38 Check the non-destructive multi-layer stack and mirror 08:32 Add a Hand layer underneath to align the joint column 09:26 Fix wrist-twist with a 0.05 vertex Set Weight 10:40 Smooth each knuckle and test the animation 12:30 Extract and match loop-line weights with the eyedropper 15:05 Block pinky bleed in mask mode and cut-and-add Root cleanup 16:16 Assign Thumb / Finger 0 influencers and shrink the mask 18:37 Mirror all finger data from the bind pose 19:19 Recap of tight-area layer skinning and cloth-work preview ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 SkinLayer Studio Series ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The full SkinLayer Studio playlist is coming soon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 Links ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 SkinLayer Studio → https://otakusolutions.com/en/skin-la... Homepage → https://otakusolutions.com/en ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Note ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #OtakuSolutions #3dsMax #Rigging #CharacterRigging #SkinLayerStudio #TechnicalArtist #GameRigging #Skinning #LayerGroup #FingerRigging #HandWeight