3DS Max - Skinning - Removing Bone influence from certain vertices

Ace-Angel

Hey to all,

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way in Max, to remove the influence of certain bones from certain vertices.

For example: I have a hand, my thumb is influencing my index finger. I set the weights manually, but now I want to use the Paint weight function to blend the edges, when I do, it ends up retaking the influence from thumb.

Any advice? Cheers!

Mark Dygert

Set the weight to zero and then go into the advanced tab and click remove zero weights.

spacefrog

If you want to exclude vertices from a bone completely, there's also the "exclude/include selected vertices" functionality for that in the skin modifier rollout

Ace-Angel

Cheers guys!

hansolocambo

not ultra recent thread, but still ultra useful (one more proof that 3DS Max isn't getting any younger)
Thanks Spacefrog and Mark Dygert

coven

Some parts get young again every release.