[Blender] How to Mirror & Symmetrize Vertex Weights

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*CHAPTERS*
0:00 Intro
0:29 Symmetrical Painting
1:29 Mirror all weights (manually)
3:02 Symmetrize a single group (manually)
3:48 Easy Weight addon
6:34 Broken Symmetry
8:52 Real Asymmetry Solution!

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[Manas-cowl]

Oh wow that assymetry mirroring is a game changer thank you so much! The possibilities are endless now, this addresses most of my concerns

[SalemFU]

i cant begin to tell you how grateful I really am for this... I was having so many issues which ironically were not necessarily directly this, but which were preventing me from being able to successfully do this... now, I have a beautifully even hominid model. thank you x1000 fr <3

[da_floofy_one]

saved my life, thought i was going to have to redo my UVs and textures all over. Thank you you little legend!

[activemotionpictures]

2:37 awesome method!! Great video, as always!

[HagenHelper]

Wow I just started making characters recently and I finally found the video I was looking for. I was so confused because I was going crazy wondering why my character wasn't symmetrical. I had no idea sculpt mode does that. Thank you so much!

[dziku]

Doesn't work - 0 verticles moves 7000 failed.

[PoMkAc]

Great tutorial. For all of you guys who have a problem with mirroring single vertex group - disable Mirror option (deactivate X) in top right corner before Mirror vertex group and everything will be ✅ 😊

[buraktabakoglu]

The most weird thing happened when i try to do this. After following your steps to the core, now my characters left shoulder bone controls both the right and left shoulder mesh. The other shoulder bone controls exactly nothing.

edit: i tried with both mirror options... and i'm %100 sure that my mesh is symmetrical.

[JuanFernandez-tibv]

very complete video with plenty of useful solutions and techniques well explained, thank you very much!!

[griffithgrimm]

thanks for all the needed info in the beggining, great format of the video

[bigboss]

You're really innovative with rigging and weight painting

[Gestalt_Animaciones]

All the tutorials I watched from your helped me a lot. Thanks for sharing your knowledge in a user-friendly way ❤

[peesukarhu_OFFICIAL]

Thanks a ton, this was a really nicely made tutorial with different examples and it actually helped. Will most likely check yout courses out and recommend everyone else to do the same

[yvanvan]

Great tutorial with great information ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge !
Have a wonderful day.

[chagaze]

Incredible tutorial! A reference! Thank you

[batlikinan]

Tried all the techniques for manually mirroring weight painting and it still doesn't work... did everything the same but still can't copy the vertex groups to the opposite bones

[mqbaka]

I've been looking for a way to do this for long, thank you.

[Manas-cowl]

Hi thank you so much it works perfectly, however I'm having trouble with symmetrizing a single group.
Basically, I was able to mirror the vertex group - however, the original vertex group lost its weight paint.
Blender changed the name from copy to duplicate I wonder if that has anything to do with anything.

Of course, I might not even need this. In the meanwhile I'll try out the Easy Weight addon.

[mixchief]

To select bones in Weight Paint mode, it is now ALT-click instead of CTR. (This has probably been mentioned down below, but doesn't hurt mentioning I guess.)