TIP: paint skin weight tool and symmetry

#1

I’ve done some skinning recently and I’ve noticed that Paint Skin Weights Tool has reflection option, but it is disabled. Fortunately you can enable it using artAttrSkinPaintCtx command. Here’s a simple script that enables reflection:

string $ctx = currentCtx;
if ( $ctx != “artAttrSkinContext”) {
ArtPaintSkinWeightsTool;
$ctx = artAttrSkinPaintCtx;
setToolTo $ctx;
}
artAttrSkinPaintCtx -e -rn 1 $ctx;

I haven’t done much testing, but it seems to work fine - I hope someone will find it useful.

I’m sorry if someone posted about this feature earlier - I haven’t found any similar thread.

#2

You don’t need a script for this. Open the tool settings panel and drop down the “stroke” section. Turn reflection on in there.

#3

There’s a checkbox for reflection in stroke section, but it is dimmed - I attached a screenshot. Maybe that’s version specific - currently I’m using Maya 2012 64Bit on Linux, but I think it looks the same on Windows. Please, correct me if I’m wrong.

#4

always been dimmed for me…ill try this later today after the commute…thanks

#5

tried this today…pretty useful. too bac u cant paint symmetrical bones simultaneously…that would be cool…but this is good for torsos and arms too if u switch the axis

Nice

#6

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