Solved! How do get my mesh to retain the pose when going from Weight Paint to Edit mode

[michaelws]

I was able to do this yesterday and the day before, but having more senior moments I have forgotten and can’t remember which YouTube video Had the answer.

Here is the mesh in Weight Paint mode;

Here the mesh goes out of the pose and into its default (unposed) posture;

I am trying to edit the distorted vertices and it is hard to find the vertex when the pose jumps back to the default position.

I don’t want to constantly use the “Apply pose as rest position” each time. There was something that I checked or clicked on that allowed me to simply change frames in the timeline and I could go back and forth from Weight Paint to Edit mode.

Thanks for any help.

[stray]

Look in the Armature Modifier, two first icons on top are “On Cage” and “Edit Mode” (usually disabled) - check them to see modifier effect in Edit Mode…

[michaelws]

Thanks Stray!