Blender Weight Paint Armature

Select the armature in 3d view and bring the armature to pose mode with ctrl tab or the 3d view header mode selector.
Blender weight paint armature. Blender 2 8 weight paint quick tip. Xray for armature was restored 4 days ago. Enter the name of the armature. This video is meant for those with a basic understanding of blender.
Quick intro and guide to skinning weight painting. 4 keep the armature selected then shift select the mesh 5 then go into weight paint mode. 6 in weight paint mode the bones will appear to be in pose mode though you can t actually pose them but i was able to active vertex groups by selecting the bones. Select your mesh with rmb and change immediately to weight paint mode.
The mesh will be colored according to the weight degree that the selected bone movement affects the mesh. Pick up here for modifying automatically assigned weights. Although i feel like it s not technically a bug since the code is probably doing what it was intended to do but it is an unfortunate side effect. Select a desired bone in the armature.
Selecting a bone in pose mode to paint corresponding weight on mesh is not working anymore. The current behavior of weight painting in blender 2 8 may appear to be buggy where you can t select bones or armature when going into weight paint. This process works great on cloned models exact duplicates but it also allows you to roughly transfer armatures and weights from one model to another that doesn t have an armature or any weight. As of now it may be a bit confusing if you are.
With this method i do not need to shift select the bone. Blender armature tutorial.