Paragon Sparrrow's "Tough" skin doesnt come with a skeleton

[Sins_of_Man1]

Sparrow has a skin called “tough” in the assets, but it doesn’t come with a skeleton. Well, it does, but that skeleton has only two bones. Thus, as far as I can tell the skin cannot be used with any animations at all. So I guess the question is, do I have to build a skeleton from scratch? I have to hope there is some way to mate it with the standard Sparrow skeleton.

[SupportiveEntity]

Hey there @Sins_of_Man1! Welcome to the community! Some of the Paragon skins skeletons seem to lack the bones of the original skeleton. You may be able to merge them and retarget like this post mentions:

How to use Paragon character with Mannequin skeleton

I know that you can get the paragon animations to work on the mannequin or get the mannequin animations to work on the paragon asset, but assigning the paragon mesh to the mannequin skeleton cannot be done because the bone hierarchy is different. First you need to make sure both skeletons are using the same retarget rig, and are in the same base pose. Paragon assets come with a “Paragon_Proto_Retarget” rig already made that you can use, or you can setup your own by right clicking a skeleton → c…

[Sins_of_Man1]

Thank you. I fear it is not just a matter of retargeting, seeing as the skin I want to use doesn’t have a skeleton at all. I have found this post with a similar problem to mine: How to transfer bones from one skeleton to another? - #3 by omarmasoud

So it seems like I’m going to have to learn blender.

[SupportiveEntity]

If needed, you could export the original skeleton and mesh to blender, transfer the weights, then clean anything else up in the weight paint if there is anomalies.

This is a bit more work for sure, but the plus side is that you can add whatever custom mesh rigging you would want in this phase.