Hey everyone, I was wondering if there is a way to use automatic weight painting on certain bones only when parenting a mesh to an armature. I’m redoing the rig of a simple character, I want the character’s eyes, beak and eyebrows to be separate from the character’s body. I tried to add the bones fo…

Have the pose bones you want to weight paint selected. Shift select your mesh and go to weight painting. Choose auto from the menu and it only assigns for the selected pose bones.

[image] batFINGER: Have the pose bones you want to weight paint selected. Shift select your mesh and go to weight painting. Choose auto from the menu and it only assigns for the selected pose bones. Thank you so much :slight_smile:

[image] batFINGER: Have the pose bones you want to weight paint selected. Shift select your mesh and go to weight painting. Choose auto from the menu and it only assigns for the selected pose bones. Actually I don’t see an auto button. Only for the parenting but that doesn’t work. D:

thank you very much :), never got to the read the post till now was busy with school

Automatic Weight Painting With Certain Bones

Artistic Support Animation and Rigging

ultrasuperbox (ultrasuperbox) December 23, 2011, 9:58am 4

Actually I don’t see an auto button. Only for the parenting but that doesn’t work. D: