Best tool for weight painting?

rayle1112

I'm learning rigging, and looking for a good tool for weight-painting. I'm using Maya but the weight-painting tool in Maya is confusing, I cant understand. Sometimes the influence of one bone affects other bones, and I have to repaint... I remember the weight-painting process in Softimage was so easy to do, why it's so frustrating in Maya?  

Tzur_H

NG skin tool for Maya. Love it.

CheeseOnToast

I'll second that. Completely removes the lock weights dance that's Maya's default. Basically it works a bit like masked layer groups in photoshop. It also doesn't leave any not-native nodes behind, so it's really clean. Mirroring and weight smoothing is also superior.

CreativeSheep

I haven't begun using it yet, great tool though and best of all, it's free.