Paint Cache Weights Tool Options

Use these options to set what happens when you select Cache > Geometry Cache > Paint Cache Weights Tool. See also Blend and set the weighting of geometry caches.

Most of the options for this tool, such as Brush, Stroke, and Display are standard Artisan tool settings. For information on these, see Artisan Tool Settings. Settings particular to the Paint Cache Weights Tool are described below.

Cache

Lists the names of all the current object’s geometry caches. Select one of the geometry caches from the list to paint its weights on the selected object.

Paint Weights

Paint operation

Replace

Your brush stroke replaces the vertex weight with the weight set for the brush.

Add

Your brush stroke adds the vertex weight to the weight set for the brush.

Scale

Your brush stroke scales the vertex weight by the weight factor set for the brush.

Smooth

Your brush stroke averages the weights of adjacent vertices to produce a smoother transition between weights.

Value

Set the weight value to apply when you perform any of the painting operations.

Set the minimum and maximum possible paint values. By default, you can paint values between 0 and 1. Setting Min/Max Value can extend or narrow the range of values.

Negative values are useful for subtracting weight. For example, if you set Min Value to -1, Value to -0.5, and select Add for the operation, you would subtract 0.5 from the weight of vertices you paint.

Positive values are used as multipliers.

Tip: To help you differentiate paint values when you paint with ranges greater than 0 to 1 (for example, -5 to 5), and to maximize the range of values that display when you paint values with ranges between 0 to 1 (for example, 0.2 to 0.8), set Min Color and Max Color (in the Display section) to correspond with the Min/Max values.

Clamp

Select whether you want to clamp the values within a specified range, regardless of the Value set when you paint.

Lower

Turn this on to clamp the lower value to the Clamp Value specified below. For example, if you clamp Lower and set the lower Clamp Value to 0.5, the values you paint will never be less than 0.5, even if you set the Value to 0.25.

Upper

Turn this on to clamp the upper value to the Clamp Value specified below. For example, if you clamp Upper, set the upper Clamp Value to 0.75, and set Value to 1, the values you paint will never be greater than 0.75.

Clamp Values

Set the Lower and Upper values for clamping.

Flood

Click Flood to apply the brush settings to all the weights on the selected object. The result depends on the brush settings defined when you perform the flood.