Mesh not moving with armature after parenting with automatic weights

[Robnarok (Rob)]

Hi Guys,

I have no idea what is going wrong here, when I select the mesh object then shift click the armature and parent with automatic weights for some reason no weight seems to be assigned to the bones? (No error messages)

If I go into weight paint mode I can manually paint weight on to the mesh assigning for the relevant bones and then the mesh moves.

When selecting the mesh object I can see that the armature object is the parent, also in object data - vertex groups all the bones are listed.

File link:

low-poly-guy.blend

Could someone please help me understand what I’m doing wrong.

[digitvisions]

Hi, the error message appears and disappears so you probably missed it.
I did clean up loos and merge by distance and it worked.

low-poly-guy1.blend (1.6 MB)

[Robnarok (Rob)]

Thanks so much for helping me out, sorry I’m pretty new to Blender still trying to get my head around all the terminology, what does “loos” refer to?

[oo_1942 (Kim)]

All edges of the object are separated.
Edit mode → Vertex full selection → Combine by M (By Distance) method.
If you need to combine individual objects, you can choose using the material.

[digitvisions]

Loos vertices, loos faces. Not connected: