Blender Vertex Skin Weights

Blender’s default weight painting tools are great for quickly applying weights to large areas.

However some Blender users may need more precision for important areas like eyes, joints, etc. The "Vertex Skin Weights” addon aims to address these limitations and bring more control over your weight painting workflow right in Edit Mode!

This is another weight-painting addon I can whole-heartedly recommend*. It was developed by an experienced artists with a clear workflow in mind. Users coming to Blender from other DDCs like MAX or Maya will likely appreciate the functionality they know and love but is missing from default Blender.

(* the other addons I highly recommend in this category are Voxel Heat Diffuse Skinning and Easy Weight)

Key Features

• Multi-bone editing for faster workflows
• Exact numerical control over weights
• Smart mirroring with .L/.R recognition
• Mesh-to-mesh weight transfer
• Interactive UI with average weights across vertex selections
• Hammer Weights tool for smoothing and normalization

Quick Overview by CGDive

Tutorial Playlist by the Addon Developer