tf_smoothSkinWeight is a custom brush for Autodesk Maya which allows you to paint smooth skin weights pretty fast and easy. The brush will smooth all influences at once hence leap-frogging some of the issues that may occur through typical normalization. Check out the tf_smoothSkinWeight script here.
tf_smoothSkinWeight from Tom Ferstl on Vimeo.
“This is a custom Maya brush which makes smoothing skin weights very fast and easy to do. Because it smooths all influences at once there is not the typical normalization problem which the standard Maya smooth skin brush has (normalize = interactive). When normalization is on post, the result gets not smooth immediatley, so you would have to switch between all influences to get it really smooth. With tf_smoothSkinWeight.py you get in both situations a smooth and correct result immediately.”
Benefits:
- smooth weights with a few strokes
- saves a lot of time
- weights all joints at once
- no need to worry about normalization
- creates a really nice and smooth weight-transition
