Blender Documentation: Last modified September 22 2003 S68
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# Weight Painting

Weight painting is an alternate technique for assigning vertices to vertex groups. The user can "paint" weights onto the model and see the results in real-time. This makes smooth joints easier to achieve.

## Activating

To activate weight-painting mode, select a mesh with vertex groups and click on the weight paint icon.

The active mesh will be displayed in weight-color mode. In this mode dark blue represents areas with no weight from the current group and red represent areas with full weight.

Only one group can be visualized at a time. Changing the active vertex group in the edit buttons will change the weight painting display.

## Painting

Weights are painted onto the mesh using techniques similar to those used for vertex painting, with a few exceptions.

The "color" is the weight value specified in the mesh's edit-buttons. The "opacity" slider in the vertex paint buttons is used to modulate the weight.

### "Erasing Weight"

To erase weight from vertices, set the weight to "0" and start painting.

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