How to merge two vertex groups and add their weights together?

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I want to merge two vertex groups in a character mesh to a single vertex group. I have tried many different techniques to solve this, locking vertex groups etc, but none seems to work. Merging two bones was easy, but now I have two vertex groups for example “Bone1” and “Bone2” that I would like to merge and add their weights together.

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You can use the vertex weight mix modifier: https://www.blender.org/manual/modifiers/modify/vertex_weight.html#vertex-weight-mix-modifier.

you probably want mix mode to be add and mix set to be all. Tweak the settings until you are happy and apply.

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No unfortunately, its way too cumbersome method for moving several bone weights to one bone. Any other ideas? Why merging two or more bones can’t just merge the vertex weights too? :frowning:

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Any ideas Anyone?

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Somebody? :smiley: