big bad horrible issue with maya7

[Thomas Monberg Thompson]

ok folks, I Im reall pist about this and I hope its just a bug, but when u make your blendshapes, DO NOT reasign textures to faces (in other words if your whole mesh is combined, you CANNOT go back and assign a different texture to those faces, you can however for the whole object), because apparently it makes you blendshapes null and void for some retarded reason.

[Professor Watkins]

You don't want to reassign textures after blenshapes anyway; because then the texture assignment is downstream of the blendshapes. This would actually be the case if you were in Maya 7 or Maya 5.

In general you always want to be completely done with Texturing/UV Mapping and then delete your history before you begin Extracting for blendshapes or rigging. otherwise you'llh ave texture problems and textures crawling across the surface of the object.

Good tip.