Check the scale of you object center as well as your mesh size relative to do units. Extreme values can mess with smoothing math results.
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 16, 2012, at 9:43 PM, "Eric Cosky" <[email protected]> wrote: > Naturally the moment I hit send, I learn something else possibly useful... > > > > If I dial the paint radius up to a value large enough to encompass the > entire object, it will in fact smooth. If I dial the radius down to anything > small enough to be a useful painting tool, it doesn't seem to do anything. > > > > > > From: Eric Cosky [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 7:31 PM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: Painting weights smooth tool trouble > > > > Hi, > > > > I've been working on the envelope weights for a fairly simple model and I am > hitting a problem where the smooth weight paint tool seems to have no effect > at all. The mesh had weights originally set up by automatic enveloping using > inclusion/exclusion/limit volumes, and I need to tweak the values. I can > paint the weights using Abs and Add. Reveal shows grey while I'm painting > but reverts back to what it was. The problem is that Smooth and Erase don't > seem to do anything at all (I'm really just interested in smooth). > > > > Opacity is at 100, the mesh is selected and the weight panel is visible. I > expect I'm just doing something obviously wrong, but after spending way too > much time trying everything I can think of and getting nowhere I have to ask > if anyone might have an idea what silly thing I'm overlooking here? I just > want to hit the smooth button and smooth a few weights (not the 'apply > smooth' command to selected points but I'll probably resort to that if I > can't figure out this seemingly trivial feature); I've done it plenty of > times in the past and I'm not sure why it is failing now. Already tried > restarts, freezing, time on Google, disconnecting the wacom, and banging my > head on the wall a few times.. > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions, > > > > Eric Cosky > > > > <winmail.dat>
