I ve discover this feature in maya 7 recently and i think i also discover a bug. I did add some object to a bones into the hierachy. I then smooth bind these bones to a nurbs object, and everything was fine the skin got some influence from the object that I parent to the bones. But when i start to paint influence, the part of the skin influence by the object in the hierachy has disapear? letting me with a hole in the surface. did someone know why, or at least how to get ride of it?
thanks
bert