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Hey interesting discussion,<br>
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I have been rigging characters for quite some time now (yeah, birds
mostly :) ) and one thing that I had to do in many ocassions was to do
screenshots of different vertex groups, in order to check/find wrong
weight paint, specially in simetrical parts (sometimes, Blender loses
track of X-axis simetry, and then paint is no longer applied equally in
both sides).<br>
<br>
So, the idea of having a way to "view" other vertexgroups while
painting weights in one, sounds interesting to me.<br>
<br>
BTW, Tony, you do know that you can pick any group that is affecting a
certain area by shift-left-clicking on the mesh, don't you ? It will
show you a list of all groups acting on that area. This is the fastest
way to clean up weight paint I ever tried. This and the face select
mode combined with SHIFT+K to fill up selected faces with a weight, are
nice tools and will speed up your workflow if you don't know them.<br>
<br>
About normalization I only had problems when blending armature
deformations with other deformers likes lattices and stuff. THEN lack
of normalization is your worst nightmare. I've heard Ton was going to
work on multi-deformers or something that would solve this issue for
once. I hope it is in 2.44 plans :)<br>
<br>
The other thing I think it's worth improving is bone envelopes. Current
system is quite limited for most cases. I mean, an ellipsoid envelope
can't really work well with most characters. You need something that
can be shaped in a more free way. I thought about something like
B-Bones but where each segment can have a different scale in X, Y, or
Z. This way you could really cover a precise volume of your mesh, thus,
speeding up skinning by not having so many things to fix.<br>
Envelopes are great, but they need to be worked on to be REALLY
productive.<br>
<br>
Anyway, regards.<br>
<br>
malefico<br>
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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:15:57 +0900
From: "Tony Mullen" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tony.mullen@gmail.com"><tony.mullen@gmail.com></a>
Subject: [Bf-funboard] Re: Some skinning feature ideas
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<pre wrap="">* Introduce a Weight Paint view-mode toggle to switch between viewing
the weights of the selected bone and viewing the weights of the whole
armature.
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