Questions related to weight painting. Weight painting is a method of defining a value for things such as how much a certain vertex will be deformed by a bone, or how long hair particles should be on a certain face.
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How do I remove weight from weight painting?
I am trying to remove some weight. I left click to add it, but I cannot figure out how to remove it.
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How to paint through the mesh during weight painting
More often than not when I do weight-painting, weights on a model are the same/similar through the whole mesh (for example leg, arm), but weight painting has culling which prevents paint to go through the model and affects only visible part. To…
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How do I control the armature in weight paint mode?
When in weight paint mode when I right click a bone it goes into object mode and selects the whole armature but what I want to do is manipulate the bones while in paint mode, as seen in tutorials, to either move a part out of the way or test the…
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Unable to Weight Paint in 3D viewport
I'm currently trying to spread pebbles along a plane using particle systems. Moreover, I wanted it so that it only spread on certain areas of the plane (which can be done using weight painting & adding a vertex group).
The problem is, whenever I…
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Weight painting not working at all (2.8)
For a little bit now I've been working on a model and I've gotten to the stage where I want to apply an armature to them. So I did the whole "Automatic weights" part and was underway to touch up the weight paint. But no matter what I do in weight…
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My weight painting only works at 100% no matter the shade
I am trying to weight paint using blender 2.73a, but no matter what weight I assign to a vertex or what shade the weight painting is it always gets influenced 100% by the armature/bone.
Has anyone else had this problem?
I add this picture of a…
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Weight painting a dot and not a gradient
I'm following a tutorial where the person quickly goes over everything so you have to have knowledge of the program. I am starting on beginners tutorials but had a look at How to Make Towels - Blender Tutorial At 03:14 he adds in a weight in the…
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Weight paint attached objects
Hi I like to know how to weight paint the whole attached object on a single bone without separating it from the mesh. For example, I want to paint the whole flower to a bone without affecting the mesh behind. In Maya you have the option to select…
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Where is autonormalize in 2.8?
I saw a tutorial on YouTube, he used Auto normalized which used to be under brush. In the today version of 2.8 isn't there anymore.
Where can I find it?
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weight painting one side of my model affects the other side in a strange way
When I'm weight painting at the right side, it acts strange on the left side. What am i doing wrong?
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How to use the smooth tool in weight paint mode?
I'm curious as to what I need to do to use the smooth tool in weight paint mode in Blender. The notice says:
Vertex select needs to be enabled in weight paint mode.
Great! How does one enable vertex select in weight paint mode?
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How to exact copy paint weights from one object to another
2 object occupying the same space with the exact same geometry.
They both need to be influence by one bone identically. I edited one's paint weight so I want to have the same changes applied to the other.
I was suggested to:
Select the object with…
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Add/Transfer one object's weight painted vertex groups to different object (identical mesh)?
I have two versions of a face mesh (via Shift+D--should be identical XYZ positions); one has correct eye (and nose) weight-painting and the other has correct lips (and chin) weight-painting. The only vertex group they both share is "head", since…
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How do I prevent the brush color using a gradient in the weights?
Good day. I cannot figure out how to draw weight without gradient. In the example below, you can see that the brush only paints red, while mine always paints with a gradient. How can I do applying weights without gradient? Is this a specific setting…
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Viewing weight data in edit mode
I'm trying to follow a rigging tutorial done in an older version of blender and, while in edit mode, the guy clicks on an option to display weight data in the 3d viewer. I cannot find this option anywhere in 2.8. Has this changed?
Thanks,
Rusty
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