Set Parents - With Automatic Weights.

Hello Blender community,

Sorry another newbie here. Recently started modeling stuff and now I would like to start rigging and doing some simple animating.

I made a robot, but I couldn’t get the “WIth Automatic Weights” to work because of the error “Bone heat weighting”
So now, I decided to make something simple and symmetric, but I still fail to get to automating to work.

Any tips to get this working would be greatly appreciated.
1.) I tried clearing doubles.
2.) Normalizing.

I read on the forums, that you should avoid having meshes inside a.k.a. messy? Any other tips for the “Set parent to -> With Automatic Weights” would be loved.

thanks for your time on reading.

http://www.pasteall.org/blend/33576

There is a decimate modifier us it times 4 ( I think 4 is what i used) Do your automatic weights then subsurf.
I can not see why auto weights did not work other then the dense mesh. The mesh is not so good.

Hi Kazinger,

Thanks for your reply, appreciate the support.

I tried decimate modifier and it worked just as you say, but used setting 6.
I will focus on keeping my mesh clean, and thanks to you now I know the decimate modifier :stuck_out_tongue:

a bit early but happy new years.