# Automatic Weight Painting With Certain Bones

**URL:** <https://blenderartists.org/t/automatic-weight-painting-with-certain-bones/527664>\
**Category:** Animation and Rigging\
**Created:** [December 19, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/automatic-weight-painting-with-certain-bones/527664 "2011-12-19T15:25:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![ultrasuperbox](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/73ab20/32.png) [@ultrasuperbox](https://blenderartists.org/u/ultrasuperbox)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 9:58am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/automatic-weight-painting-with-certain-bones/527664/4 "2011-12-23T09:58:04Z")

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> [@batFINGER](#):
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> 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:

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