Maya Weight Painting Not Working

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Maya weight painting not working. Hey guys this is the second video following the easy rigging tutorial. With the paint skin weights tool you can paint weight intensity values on the current smooth skin. Make a copy of the geometry. Paint the weights on that one.

Bind the mesh and lock all the joints weights in the paint weight tool. If you have it set to high quality rendering then it will always be viewed as a hq render and negate the visuals of the paint skin weights tool. Whenever i try to edit the weights of my rigged mesh the bones are working properly and appropriate colors show up in weight paint mode my paintbrush simply wont paint over or subtract the weights. Hello i am just getting started with this great software but i have run into a frustrating problem.

One thing you might check is to make sure under the renderer default quality rendering is checked the renderer is located in the panel bar at the top of each view port. Painting weights problems on my penguin in maya. You cant change weight assignments of weight assignments are locked. This video focuses on the weight painting of the character.

To open the paint skin weights tool settings select skin edit smooth skin paint skin weights tool. I have searched for solutions on google but none of them seem to work i added and applied. A clean way to go about painting weights is to select only the joints that you need to influence the mesh then select the mesh go to the smooth skin options and set the max influences to 1 and the joints to selected. Copy the weights back to the original geometry.

Generally it is a bad idea to use many of the default bind settings. The paint skin weights tool is one of the artisan based tools in maya.