Painting Weights Brush Question

[noodlehead]

I'm moving from C4D to Houdini and ocasionally some simple things stump me.

 

I'm trying to paint weights on a mesh in the Paint Capture sop but I'm encountering some weird problems with my brush.

 

I was able to paint smoothly as seen in the top part of the mesh. Colors blended and I was able to paint across polygons.

 

Then, for whatever reason, my brush changed and now it paits only in the center (no matter how big I make it) and it seems to favor painting in a whole polygon instead of being able to paint across polygons. See example in red lower part.

 

Any help figuring this out wold be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Edited June 12, 2014 by noodlehead

[edward]

Is it possible that those polygons are not connected? Or perhaps you have duplicate points?

[noodlehead]

Is it possible that those polygons are not connected? Or perhaps you have duplicate points?

 

Thank you for the help.

 

You were right because the vertices weren't all fused. I put a fuse sop and it all worked perfectly.

 

Is this behavior due to the fact it was an obj? This is what the tutorial I was doing gave us.

 

Thanks again.

Edited June 12, 2014 by noodlehead

[edward]

Good question. Without examining the .obj file itself, it would be hard to tell. It might be a bug in the recent gwavefront changes as well. Which tutorial are you talking about?

[noodlehead]

It was CMI vfx's

Houdini Rigging Animation Fundamentals

Everything works good now - thank you