Remove Influence

[malacay]

Hi all

i have a little question.

i have a smooth binded mesh and now i remove a joint (influence) from the skincluster. then the verteces for this joint are reassigned to the other joints which are connected to the skincluster.
but what are the criteria maya consideres when assigning these verteces (and their values) to other joints?!?
is it for example the closest distance from a vertex to the next joint, or is it the next joint in the hierarchy?

i didn't find anything in the maya help so maybe someone of you knows about this.

thanks for reading.

[drblacksnake]

actually maya just returns the amount of influence taken by that previously bound joint. when normalized the sum of all influences for given vertex usually ends up with 1.0000