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798 Chapter 8: Modifiers
Weight Properties group
Abs. Effect—Enter an absolute weig ht for the
selected bone to selected ver tices.
Choose the Envelop e sub-object level, turn on
Vertices in the Parameters rollout > Select group,
select a vertex or vertices, and then use the Abs.
Effect spinner to assign weight. Selected vert ices
move in the viewports as their weight changes.
Rigid—Causes selected vertices to be influenced
only by one bone, the one with the most influence.
Rigid Handles—Causes the handles of selected
patch vertices to be influenced by only one bone,
the one with the most influence.
Normalize—Forces the total weights of each
selected vertex to add up to 1.0.
Ex clude S el ected V er t s—Adds the currently
selected vertices to the exclusion list for the current
bone. Any vertices in this exclusion list will not
be affected by this bone.
Include S elected V er t s—Take s t h e s electe d
vertices out of the exclusion list for the selected
bone. The bone can then affect these vertices.
Select Excluded Verts—Selects all vertices
excluded f rom the current bone (see E xclude
Selected Verts, preceding).
Bake Selected Verts—Click to bake the
current vertex weights. B aked weights are not
affected by envelope changes, only by changes to
Abs. Effect or weights in the We ig ht Table (page
1–810).
Weight Tool—Displays the We ight Tool dialog
(page 1–807), which offers control tools to help
you assig n and blend weights on selected vertices.
Weigh t Table—Displays a table for viewing and
changing weights for all bones in the skeletal
structure. See Weight Table (page 1–810).
Pai n t Wei ght s —Click and drag the cursor over
vertices in the v iewports to br ush on weights for
the selected bone.
Tip: Streamline the painting process by using the
Brush Presets tools (page 3–690).
Painter Options [ellipsis]—Opens the
Painter Options dialog (page 1–960),whereyou
can set parameters for weight painting.
Paint B lend Weights—When on, blends painted
values by averaging the weig hts of neighboring
vertices and t hen applying the average weight
based on the brush strength. Default=on.