Component Editor Bug

[l-titre]

When Im editting my characters skin weights in the component editor, my total weight influence is higher than 1. Is there a way to fix this problem?

Ive restarted my machine and restarted maya. It seems to be a weird bug.

[goggle]

I'm sure you've checked already but are you sure you've got Weight Normalization on? under Skin->Edit Smooth Skin->Enable Weight Normalization.

There's nothing that says a point can't have a weight higher than one if that's what you want. It's just easier to make sense of things if it's no greater than one.

Hope this helps.

-James

[iaki]

I've got a similar problem - my weight influence "total" on several verticies lists as 1 in component editor, but the actual weights only add up to .950 or so. The extra .05 is unaccounted for in the component editor: nevertheless, the vertex is clearly influenced by other joints who do not show up in the editor as having any influence (even after unlocking those joint influences, the extra 0.05 doesn't want to show up). Weight normalization is on, and ordinarily this is not a problem...

If anyone's found a solution to this, your contribution here would be appreciated!

[iaki]

Ah, how silly of me - this occurred to me less than minute after I posted. To fix the weighing problem, just make it impossible for component editor to screw up: make it re-weigh against every joint by unlocking the weighting on all joints.

This is what I used to fix my misbehaving vertex:

string $thisjoint;
string $alljoints[] = ls -type "joint";
for ($thisjoint in $alljoints)
setAttr ($thisjoint + ".liw") 0;
skinPercent -tv NameOfJointThatSucks 1.000000 skinClusterName MyMesh.vtx[1625];

Not sure when exactly this "bug" kicks in yet, but on a side question, anyone got a good alternative to Component Editor for a numerical weighting tool?