This intuitive tool lets you easily adjust the weights of selected vertices by dragging the mouse up and down.
The weights are automatically normalized while adjusting, so you can preview what your mesh will look like.
This is very helpful when skinning elbows and knees when you want to get that perfect skin folding result.
Besides skinning with armatures, this tool is also useful for working with weights for things like hair density, physics goals, modifier influences etc.
Features (v1.3.0):
It automatically normalises weights as you change them, so you can see how your mesh will deform.
It works in both Weight Paint mode and Edit mode.
It preserves the weights of locked groups (so you can safely work without risk, and also you can safely have vertex groups for stuff like modifier influences etc.).
Multi-version add-on: one file that works on several Blender versions (2.79, 2.80+ and so on), easier to carry around with you.
Happy to find a real usecase for this. On Splatypi’s Judy Hopps rig the ear can intersect itself on some poses, but it’s a quick fix when you can pick individual vertices and press a hotkey to drag-adjust the weight.
Hi @Krysman,
this tool doesn’t have X-axis mirroring yet. It only works on the vertices that you selected.
That said, you can mirror the weights that you just worked on by using the built-in vertex group mirror tool from Blender: Mirror Vertex Group
This is why some people recommend weighting only one half of your mesh (say, the left side), and leave the mirroring as the absolute final step. This simplifies things a lot: instead of having to worry about weighting both sides at once, you just work on the weights of one side until it’s great, then mirror it entirely after you’re finished.
@walt1 wow, my reply took one full month to arrive… really sorry for taking this long to answer.
I think the notification email got buried in my inbox.
I updated it to work on the 3.x series, so now Adjust Vertex Weights works on both Blender 2.x and 3.x.
Take care!
Ah yes, that’s a warning message. But the tool will work fine and you can use it as usual.
In order for me to support every possible Blender version with a single script, instead of having a different download for every Blender version, inside the script I have to put the target version number as something very far ahead (“Blender 999”).
This way, plus some magic code, that single script file can work on Blender 2.7x, 2.8x, 2.9x and 3.x, which have slightly different APIs.
But that huge version number causes it to show that warning message when it’s installed.
Sorry to hear about that.
I personally use the classic version 2.79 (which is a few generations behind the latest one). It’s got all the features I need for my specific usecase, and the versions that came after that have some small things that frustrate me too.
Please give it a few days so you can take a rest from it, and when you feel like giving it another try, you can make a thread in these forums asking for tips on how to improve your user experience on Blender. Sometimes people here go the extra mile with helping, it’s really cool (edit: but you have to be very specific, asking the right questions).
