Hi there,
I have a couple simple questions that have alluded me while skinning a character mesh for some reason:

1. When in component editor, sometimes the joint that I’m trying to weight is not in the heading list as an influence on a particular vert that I’m trying to add weight to.  I’ve tried all the menus in component editor to find a quick way to add that joint in as a column for weighting on this vert.  Is there a quick way to add any joint to the influence list? As a work around, I’ve gone into the Paint Weight Tool and painted that vert with influence form the desired joint, but this seems like a roundabout way.

2. I’ll spend time weighting all the fingers for instance.  How do I mirror all those new values I’ve weighted over to the opposite hand?  So I don’t have to do all the work over again?

Thanks

Autodesk Max 2010 (sometimes I use Max version 8)
Maya 2011, Mudbox 2010, Motion Builder 2010, Windows CP PC Pentium 3.4 Ghz, 2 GB RAM

@component editor- you can turn off the hide zero columns and you can see any joint.. type in a weight value and then turn back on the zero columns.Not a great solution .. I use the paint tools most of the time and stay out of the comp. editor. Using other scripts for weighting as needed.

@ mirroring weights,Maya has the mirror weights tool that works very well...you need to open the options because the current default value for the tool will not mirror correctly.

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