Painting & shortcuts

One brush for weights and masks, with mirroring, vertex selection and a full set of shortcuts.

Brush operators

Set the brush target to Weights or Mask. The operators work the same on both.

Add

Adds influence for the active bone.

Replace

Paints the active bone's influence toward a target weight.

Multiply

Scales one influence. Below 1 shrinks it, above 1 grows it.

Relax

Smooths values toward their neighbourhood average.

Erase

Subtracts influence.

Unify

Drives the vertices under the brush toward their shared average.

Sharpen

Pushes each value away from its neighbourhood average. The inverse of Relax.

Brush settings

Size · Strength · Falloff

The engine's own brush properties, shared by the viewport ring and the panel.

Space

Surface measures falloff across the mesh surface. Volume measures it straight through space.

Mode

Paint uses the brush radius. Flood Connected applies the operator to the whole connected piece of mesh under the cursor, with no falloff.

Mirroring

Mirror strokes

Off by default. Each stamp is also applied at the mirrored vertices, driving the opposite-side bone.

Mirror selection

Adds each lassoed vertex's partner to the selection, without changing how the brush paints.

Axis

X, Y or Z: the plane the mirror reflects across.

Direction

Positive to negative, negative to positive, or flip. Used by the one-shot Mirror action and mirrored floods.

Vertices pair by position; bones pair by name. l/r and left/right are recognised as whole words. For any other naming, add search-and-replace rules. They are checked first.

Selecting vertices

Press S for select mode. Click picks a vertex and dragging draws a lasso. Shift adds, Ctrl removes, and Shift + double-click on a neighbouring vertex adds its quad loop.

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