[Bf-funboard] Some skinning feature ideas

[Matt Ebb]

>         ** Test for non-contiguous vertex groups (non-blocking display).
> * Figure out how to do a better "bone-casting" algorithm, to set up
> weights for bones--- is this needed in blender? Isn't it already
> there with automatic Vertex Group creation?

I don't do much rigging, but I've always found that auto create groups
to be rather dodgy. What would be much better IMO would be a way to
bake the bone envelopes to vertex groups for all deforming bones at
once. Currently you can do this one at a time via some obscure menu
entry I can't remember now, but I imagine it would be much nicer to be
able to just do it all at once, so you can have a workflow like: set
up envelopes -> bake -> clean up with painting.

cheers

Matt