Help - Weight paint keeps disappearing

Hello, I am trying to attach weights to my character, but when I have two weight paints overlap with one another they get removed.

Head bone before:

Neck bone:

Head bone after:

What causes this is probably Auto-Normalizing (checkbox in Active Tool settings > Options).
Normalizing makes it so the sum of a given vertex weights is equal to β€œ1”. So when you paint solid β€œ1” in one group, others automatically become β€œ0” (unless a group is locked).

Thanks, this was the issue!

Before turning auto normalize off I would first read about what it does. Its not a real β€œsolution”.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/sculpt_paint/weight_paint/introduction.html?highlight=auto%20normalize

You are just setting yourself up for confusion later down the line when you find out that the colors that should represent weight have become meaningless now. :man_shrugging:

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