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I found a very strange behavior of maya. I created a simple rig used smoothBind skin. Everything is fine until I place the character to large distance from the origin, let's say x: 150000, y: 80000, z: -32000 and I turn on subdivision (pressing 3 key) to see a smooth mesh.
Here are the example pictures:
I have the feeling that skinWeight normalization results this, but no idea hot to fix it.