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# Easy Weights
Easy Weight is an addon focused on quality of life improvements for weight painting in Blender.
## Table of Contents
- [Installation](#installation)
- [How to Use](#how-to-use)
- [Entering Weight Paint Mode](#entering-weight-paint-mode)
- [Weight Paint Context Menu](#weight-paint-context-menu)
- [Hunting Rogue Weights](#hunting-rogue-weights)
- [Vertex Group Operators](#vertex-group-operators)
- [Force Apply Mirror Modifier](#force-apply-mirror-modifier)
- [Previous Features](#previous-features)
## Installation
1. Clone repository `git clone https://projects.blender.org/studio/blender-studio-pipeline.git`
2. From the root of the repository navigate to `/scripts-blender/addons/`
3. Find the the `easy_weights` Place this folder in your Blender addons directory or create a symlink to it.
## How to Use
Easy Weight is an addon focused on quality of life improvements for weight painting in Blender. Easy Weight is an addon focused on quality of life improvements for weight painting in Blender.
### Entering Weight Paint Mode ### Entering Weight Paint Mode
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In Blender, you cannot apply a mirror modifier to meshes that have shape keys. In Blender, you cannot apply a mirror modifier to meshes that have shape keys.
This operator tries to anyways, by duplicating your mesh, flipping it on the X axis and merging into the original. It will also flip vertex groups, shape keys, shape key masks, and even (attempt) shape key drivers, assuming everything is named with .L/.R suffixes. This operator tries to anyways, by duplicating your mesh, flipping it on the X axis and merging into the original. It will also flip vertex groups, shape keys, shape key masks, and even (attempt) shape key drivers, assuming everything is named with .L/.R suffixes.
### Previous Features ## Previous Features
Over time as more things have been fixed on Blender's side, some features have been removed. To avoid confusion, these are listed here: Over time as more things have been fixed on Blender's side, some features have been removed. To avoid confusion, these are listed here:
- As of [Blender 3.1](https://developer.blender.org/rBa215d7e230d3286abbed0108a46359ce57104bc1), holding the Ctrl and Shift buttons in weight painting will use the Subtract and Blur brushes respectively, removing the need for the shortcuts on the 1, 2, 3 keys this addon used to add to provide quick brush switching. - As of [Blender 3.1](https://developer.blender.org/rBa215d7e230d3286abbed0108a46359ce57104bc1), holding the Ctrl and Shift buttons in weight painting will use the Subtract and Blur brushes respectively, removing the need for the shortcuts on the 1, 2, 3 keys this addon used to add to provide quick brush switching.
- As of [Blender 3.0](https://developer.blender.org/rBSc0f600cad1d2d107d189b15b12e2fcc6bba0985c), the weight paint overlay is no longer multiplied on top of the underlying colors, removing the need for this addon to change shading or object display settings when using the Toggle Weight Paint mode operator. - As of [Blender 3.0](https://developer.blender.org/rBSc0f600cad1d2d107d189b15b12e2fcc6bba0985c), the weight paint overlay is no longer multiplied on top of the underlying colors, removing the need for this addon to change shading or object display settings when using the Toggle Weight Paint mode operator.