TYPE: Object State
TITLE: Paint Capture Weights Operation

The Paint Capture Weights operation allows you to interactively paint the
capture weights of your geometry.

After choosing this operation, your first task is to select the geometry to
paint, then right-click to complete.  The geometry must all be within one object
node.

As you move the mouse over the geometry, you will see a circular brush follow
the surface to show where you would paint.  The size of the brush and its
orientation will show you which points will be affected by a paint operation.

Painting is done to the weights of one bone at a time.  You may change which
bone by Ctrl-middle clicking  the desired bone.

Like all the brush tools, you have two different brushes: your Foreground brush
and your Background brush.  You paint with your foreground brush using the LMB
and the background with the MMB.  The amount of weight painted is controlled by
the "FW" and "BW" parameters respectively.  

Each of the brushes also can have its own independent operation.  To select the
operation for each brush, use Ctrl-right mouse to bring up the operation menu.
The options are:

- Paint: This paints your new weight onto the geometry.

- Eye Dropper: This takes the weight of the point nearest the center
  of your brush and sets it to that brush's painting weight.

- Smooth: This smoothly blends the weights of nearby points under the
  brush.

- Erase Changes: This is a local undo - it restores the points under
  your brush to the pre-capturepaint values.

The other important parameters are:

- Visualize: This controls how to display the bone's weightings.  The
  default "bone color" will color each point by the amount each bone
  affects it with that bones color.  This is useful to see what bone
  controls which point.  The "false color" will only show that bone's
  weights, but allow you to tell with greater precision how much any
  point is affected by the bone.

- Radius: The size of the brush.

- Opacity: How strong the brush is.  A fully opaque brush replaces the
  original weight, while a less opaque brush blends it.

The other Ctrl-right mouse menu options are:

- Circle/Square/Bitmap Brush: The shape of the brush.  The bitmap is
  set in the operation parameters dialog.

- Orient Brush To Surface: When disabled, the brush is always oriented
  the same way.  This is useful when painting crinkly geometry.

- Accumulate to Stencil: This advanced option is described in more
  detail in the manual.

See also: Capture Geometry(capturegeometry),
	  Edit Capture Weights(editcaptureweight),
	  Edit Capture Regions(editcaptureregion),
          Mirror Capture Weights(mirrorcapture)
