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Cannot reweight envelope if the inverse normals operator is applied after enveloping

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Symptom On reweighting an envelope, the envelope does not update according to the changes. The weight panel and weight map both update as expected, however on moving the deformer, the envelope does not reflect the changes.

Cause Bug#87093:Cannot reweight envelope if the inverse normals operator is applied after enveloping

Solution

1) Select the envelope and open an Explorer window. F to frame the selection

2) Drag and drop the Envelope operator above the Inverse Normals operator.

3) In the Clusters>EnvelopWeightCls select the Envelope_Weights node and Freeze the same.

4) Reweight the envelope and the envelope will update accordingly.

Applies To: XSI 3.0 on NT,Win2K,Irix,Linux

Posted: 12/4/2002