Degrees of mesh deformation not working

Support Animation and Rigging
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All,
I’m rigging a shark, but I’ve come across a problem. I want to assign weights to some parts of the mesh for some bones that are not set to 1, but they all deform like they are all weighted at 1. I think pictures would explain my plight better :).

Shark_GL_Problems_5.png1920×1080 262 KB


If I weight paint the vertices for this bone to red and rotate it, I get this, which is normal.
Shark_GL_Problems_6.png1920×1080 441 KB


Then I’ll subtract from the group for that bone
Shark_GL_Problems_7.png1920×1080 485 KB


Alas, the vertices with a weight less than one still rotate as if they had a weight of 1 assigned to them.
Here’s my blend:
http://www.pasteall.org/blend/27880

It’s very annoying, so help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

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If part of the mesh is weighted to one bone with 0.001 weight and not weighted to any other bones, the mesh will act like it has 1.000 weight to that bone.
On the last picture, if you want them green and blue vertices to not follow the Front_Head bone, you will have to weight them to a different bone aswell, Middle for example, so they have something to deform from.

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Wow, thanks for the quick reply. Your advice worked solidly. Thanks again!