Smooth Weights
brave rabbit
What makes Smooth Weights different from Blender's built-in weight painting?
Smooth Weights extends Blender's weight painting with a dedicated smoothing workflow without the need to select any bones. It provides an interactive painting brush, fast flood smoothing, surface- and volume-based smoothing, selection painting, advanced symmetry tools and many production-oriented options, all while allowing you to work directly in Object or Weight Paint Mode.
What is the difference between Surface and Volume smoothing?
Surface smoothing averages weights between connected neighbouring vertices and is the recommended mode for most skinning tasks. Volume smoothing instead uses the spatial distance between vertices, allowing weights to blend across gaps, overlapping geometry and separate mesh islands. Because it evaluates many more neighbouring vertices, it is more computationally intensive.
What is the Symmetry Map and why is it useful?
The Symmetry Map analyses a mesh once and stores the relationship between symmetrical vertices. That mapping is then reused for brush symmetry, weight mirroring and mesh symmetry operations, making them faster and more reliable, even on meshes with multiple islands or partial symmetry.
Do I have to switch into Weight Paint Mode to use Smooth Weights?
No. The brush can be started directly from Object Mode or Weight Paint Mode, and the add-on also includes built-in selection painting so skin smoothing can be performed without repeatedly switching between different Blender modes.
Is Smooth Weights suitable for large production meshes?
Yes. Version 3 has been extensively optimised for high-density characters. On a production mesh with approximately 90,500 vertices, flood smoothing can be up to 27× faster than previous versions, while brush updates remain responsive during painting.
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