Questions tagged [vertex-groups]
Vertex groups are a group of vertices from a mesh that allow specialized selections and or editing.
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Weights topology mirror doesn't do anything for only a portion of the model
When trying to topology mirror vertex groups on a perfectly symmetrical model, a portion of the model fails to mirror, despite blender not reporting any error. The region that fails to mirror is ...
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How can I make objects appear only on part of a surface in Geometry Nodes using a Vertex Group?
I want my objects (characters) to appear only on a specific area of a surface, not all over it. I already created a Vertex Group that marks the area where I want the characters to be distributed. ...
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Is it possible to save a "face group" instead of a vertex group? [duplicate]
I work with face corner vertex color a lot. Sometimes I need to go back and change the color of e.g. all red faces to green faces. I could select all the faces manually, but this can be time consuming ...
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How to fix IK limbs after mirroring and joining a rigged mesh?
I tried to create a mirrored copy of my model, which was originally only half of a character and made whole using a Mirror Modifier. However, this process messed up the rigging. To fix it, I ...
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Object not rigging properly
My objects are not rigging properly using Rigify. I've already tried: Weight painting has a full influence on the object Using a vertex group, but I'm not familiar with it, and might have missed ...
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Is it possible to account for the distance above or below a target object using the VertexWeightProximity modifier?
I have a flat plane object representing water. It is animated to rise and fall to simulate tidal influences. I have another tilted plane object that represents dry land, beach, and ocean bottom. The ...
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Automatic Weights cuts off mid-chain on long straight bone chain (Blender 4.5.3)
I have a mesh covering a chain of 58 bones arranged in a straight line, like a rope or tube. When I parent with Automatic Weights using octahedral bones, only roughly the second half of the mesh gets ...
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Issue with vertex group
I am trying to assign all the vertices of a plane to a vertex group. I am creating a new vertex group and clicking assign But when I exit edit mode of this object and want to use the same vertex ...
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Grease Pencil Lineart Modifier doesn't support multiple vertex group transfer
When using a Line Art modifier targeting an object (or a collection), it seems the Vertex Groups don't transfer as expected. I'm trying to use this function to transfer vertex groups from my mesh to ...
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Getting the vertex group weight of a point in Grease Pencil 3.0?
In Grease Pencil previous to 3.0, we were able to do: weight = stroke.points.weight_get(vertex_group_index=vertex_group.index, point_index=points_index) In Grease ...
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Folding box - problem getting the correct weightings for the folds to work correctly
See blend files attached at the end. I also added some notes via annotations. I am trying to fold a box. To do this, I have set up a rig that works as intended on a low-poly version, which I have ...
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How to replace weight paint of a side by the other side mirrored (copy .R → .L)?
This is a widely asked question but I found no satisfying answer yet and no matching question. I have a mesh with the right-side correctly weight-painted, I want to mirror copy to the left-side. No, I ...
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How to create a Face Group from selected faces, similar to a Vertex Group
How can I select the faces I need and then make them into a face group, like the Vertex Group option? I'm using Blender 4.4. I have selected these faces, but when I click on Select, it selects the ...
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Grease Pencil/Line Art Modifier Vertex Group Issue
I hope y'all are doing good. Not sure if this was discussed before, but I can't find any page online about it. I noticed since Blender 4.3 (never downloaded 4.2), the vertex group for the lineart just ...
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