adding a tube from helmet to backpack

[jojo3450]

So I'm adding a tube from a helmet to a oxygen tank on a back pack. How do I make the tube stay connected to the helmet and the backpack? Do i merge it with backpack and/or helmet OR do I envelope it to the back pack and the helmet? and If i do envelope it can u show me the steps

[JimmyAngler]

I would merge it with the helmet and the backpack, and then envelope the bone head and rib cage going down the tube from 10,90 20,80 30,70... Etc

[jojo3450]

can you clarify the "10,90 20,90" part, also i adding the the tube to a stock stormtrooper so do I merge it to the entire geometry?

[giftheck]

Ah, are you recreating the Magma Trooper, by any chance?

By "10,90,20,80", he means your tube should have weight values something like this when you weight it:

bone_head|bone_ribcage
100.00 |0.0 (this is the points that are attached to the helmet)
90.0 |10.0
80.0 |20.0
70.0 |30.0
And so on and so forth until you get towards the backpack end of the tube:
20.0 |80.0
10.0 |90.0
0.0 |100.0

[jojo3450]

yes i am creating a version!