How to copy a bone in corective shapekeys?
It can be reached from the ‘object data’ menu (under the ‘vertex groups’ header) by clicking the black ‘down arrow’. In ‘weight paint mode’ select the bone with the assigned weight and click ‘copy vertex group’ in the corective shapekeys addon menu. Now you have a thigh.L and the thigh.L_copy in ‘vertex groups’.
How do you make a copy of a thigh bone?
With the original one selected, click on the padlock icon and lock it. Next select the copy and click the ‘mirror vertex groups (topology)’ option. Rename the thigh.L_copy to thigh.R. Now clicking the bone on the left and then the bone on the right, you can see that both have individual weights assigned to them.
Is there a way to transfer vertex weights?
Also tried: Transfer Weights – but that is only for transferring to a different mesh, keeping the same bones. Copy Attributes/Vertex Weights – appears to only transfer to different mesh as well. For your main question, I don’t think there is a native way to do that. I am sure a script could be written to do what you want.
How to transfer weights from one bone to another in Blender?
Note: Using Assign button doesn’t seem to work because you have to select a weight by using a slider and all the vertices that you assign will have this weight. Also tried: Transfer Weights – but that is only for transferring to a different mesh, keeping the same bones.
How to assign vertex groups to thigh.r bone?
Now clicking the bone on the left and then the bone on the right, you can see that both have individual weights assigned to them. The last thing is to assign the proper vertex groups to thigh.R bone. Select thigh.R bone and enter the ‘edit mode’ (TAB). Press A key to deselect everything and then press ‘select’ under ‘vertex groups’.
How do you weight bones in a blender?
Each pair of bones need to have the same name with the suffix .L for the left side and .R for the right side. E.g. UpperArm.L and UpperArm.R. In the weighting Options of the tool panel turn on “X Mirror”.