The Tips in detail

 "Trying to scale a biped down which is controlling a physiqued skin"

Check out page 216 of the CS manual. If you put the biped in figure mode, switch Physique off (with the lightbulb toggle) change the height of the biped in the structure rollout and reinitialize physique. The only problem is that character studio has it's own units of measurement which makes it tricky to be accurate.

from: Matt Howath <Matt.Howarth@granadamedia.com>

I've never had much luck getting this to work with any of my characters - most times the biped scales but not the mesh. (Interestingly, this method sort of works with the rock.max character that comes with CS, but even when you save the envelope settings and reload after the scaling, they don't catch all the verts - something bogus with the figure mode pose from the look of it. It doesn't, however, work with the Harley.max character... )

Is there anyone out there who has success with this method (consistently) and could share some helpful hints?

BTW, here's the cumbersome resizing method I arrived at by trial and error a while back - it always seems to work though :-)

Put biped into figure mode

Save out the .phy file from the character meshes physique modifier

Delete physique

Unlink the mesh from the biped (unlink tool)

Create a dummy and align it to bip01 (align tool)

Pop the transform type in dialogue (under tools menu)

Using the scale tool, select the dummy and check that all boxes read 100% in the TTI dialogue

Link the character mesh to that dummy

Scale the dummy until the character mesh is the size you want

Read the scale factor from the TTI dialogue then go into the bipeds structure rollout

Use a calculator to multiply the biped height by that scale percentage factor and type it into the height box

Hopefully you have a perfect fit...

Now you just reapply physique to the mesh, reload the .phy file and take the biped out of figure mode I don't think I've forgotten anything...

from: Steven Brown <steve@cauldron99.freeserve.co.uk>