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Editing an envelope weight map has no effect on the way the envelope deforms

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Symptom

Your envelope weight map appears to update when you paint on it, but any changes are not reflected in the way the envelope deforms.

Cause

This will occur if you change the topology of the envelope or any object connected to a deformation operator using a weight map and will affect both Polygon and Nurbs objects.

Solution

To work around this problem you can use the Disable From Here feature to mute the Envelope operator while you edit the topology of the object:

1. Select the Envelope operator in the Explorer view.
2. From the right-click drop down menu, choose Disable from here.
3. Edit the topology of the object - the topology editing operators will be inserted below the Envelope operator
4. To reactivate the envelope use the right-click drop down menu and choose Enable from here.

If you use these steps to edit the topology of your object the envelope weight map will function properly after the Envelope operator has been re-enabled.

Applies To: XSI 1.5,XSI 2.0 on NT,Win2K,Irix

Posted: 12/20/2001

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