Maya 2012 Skinning issue (weight normalisation)

[Jake_H]

Hi
I was wondering if anyone else out there had experienced the issue with skinning in Maya, where the weights add up to 2, rather than normalising to 1.

I am doing a smooth bind on selected joints, using closest in hierachy, classic linear and I am normalising weights post (as I have had issues before with interactive). When I paint weights it doesnt redistribute the allocation properly but keeps the original allocated bind.

Never had as much trouble skinning in previous versions of Maya (Actually I take that back 2011 had issues too).

Suggestions on work around?
Jake

PS still using David Waldens skining tools as well as the current 2012 maya UI paint skin.

[Storm]

I think you should just use interactive instead, but if you have had problems with that as well, I really don't know :S

[Mrguy]

Basically what Storm said...

With the paint weights brush on, on the left there is a normalize weights. Sometimes I have to change it to off. A promt comes up to normalize. Then I switch to Interactive. Promted once more and then it works. I think by default it's on Post. Post doesn't work imo. Why someone would want a 2.0 weight is beyond my comprehension.

Hope that helps.

[Jake_H]

Cheers MrGuy & Storm
Yes I have now switched to interactive ( I found the mesh doesnt blow up if you switch weight normalisation via the attributes, rather than the channel box/history toggle).

Will see how todays tweaks go, then hopefuly animation time.
Thanks again
Jake