Painting Weights

Description
In this tutorial we look at how to paint weights in maya, it is useful if you are rigging organic models. It is a short tutorial where I show some tips and tricks, in the end I show how to mirror and export weights.

Programs Used

Maya

Tutorial by
Dennis Jensen

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Arth:
Yes, but there are some conditions.

1. The hands need to be combined into the same mesh, before you start painting the weights. (A general thing, you can only mirror/copy weight within the same mesh.
2. The naming of the joints need to be the same for example R_Hand_wrist_JNT and L_Hand_wrist_JNT for the hand wrists joint on right and left side.
3. Maya is very buggy when it comes to copying mirroring wegihts. So export your weights as image maps before you start.
4. You may need to press apply more than once.

When that is said you find the tool here: Skin - Edit Smooth skin - Mirror Sking Weights

Cheers
D. 2011-08-10

I was wondering if there was a way to transfer paint maps to the other hand?
D. 2011-08-10

Excellent tutorial!!!
D. 2011-07-19

Thanks a lot, man!

Your tutorials help me a lot, you have no idea, and even if there is some "mistakes", it's always a pleasure to watch your vid.

Anyway, the show must go on! ^^
See you soon.
D. 2011-06-06

nice tutorial
keep it up..
this is so important to my project
and I will try to follow this site as much as I can :)
D. 2011-05-09