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Francesco Siddi
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3: Rigging

Weight Painting

Here we do some fine tuning for the rig. By manually weight painting, we have a bit more control over the influence of each bone on the geometry.

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10 comments
josepardo1217
josepardo1217
Sept. 19th, 2020

Hi I have a problem, I'm new and I'm using blender 2.9, it's quite different and I did riggify mu character and everything seems to be right, however, when I moved the legs, the rig moved, but without moving the mesh? do you know why?

https://ibb.co/QKk2yw0

Chris Fortier
Chris Fortier
April 17th, 2020

Not sure if comments are still being read here but had to post anyway as I have into a huge roadblock that I can't seem to figure out. I'm following your steps but with my own character but after I generate my rig with auto-weights I can't paint at all. Pls see:

https://postimg.cc/1fSBY7BW

Any ideas on what i'm doing wrong? ANY ideas would be appreciated! Thx

Andy Goralczyk
Andy Goralczyk
April 17th, 2020

*@Chris Fortier* Hey! it's hard to say without the actual blend file. (it could be the strength or the blend mode of the brush in weight paint mode) do you have the file somewhere?

Chris Fortier
Chris Fortier
April 17th, 2020

*@Andy Goralczyk* Hi Andy, thx for the fast reply! Here is the Blender file. Many thanks!! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Wd7h-Jahn2uCH1u_7yEswgJAhjCcse0j

Andy Goralczyk
Andy Goralczyk
April 17th, 2020

*@Chris Fortier* You have paint mask enabled and simultaneously no faces selected, just disable it by pressing the little button next to the mode dropdown like shown in the recording below:

alternatively you can just select all faces (or the ones you want to paint on. Hope this helps! Andy

Chris Fortier
Chris Fortier
April 17th, 2020

*@Andy Goralczyk*

OMG, so simple - I feel like an idiot! Regardless, you just saved my sanity. Thanks SO much!

Jon Zelis
Jon Zelis
Oct. 19th, 2017

you also mention "snapping to" the eyeball but don't mention how you'e snapping it.

Saúl Jerónimo
Saúl Jerónimo
Dec. 8th, 2016

this file is wrong

Francesco Siddi
Francesco Siddi
Dec. 8th, 2016

@saulsero_jeronimo: The file has been fixed.

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Saúl Jerónimo
Saúl Jerónimo
Dec. 10th, 2016

@fsiddi: thanks!!

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