Weight maps don't mirror

aaráribel caađo

While rigging a cape-like thing, I added split some bones and redid the weight maps on the left side. At a couple of points in the process, I used the symmetry feature that comes up in the weight mapping tool when you right click and Edit Weights (Daz is occupied doing a sim right now, so i can't look up the exact menu name). I selected whole figure, X axis, left to right, make bones is missing (or soemthing close to that)…and didn't get mirrored maps. My geometry is symetrical along the X-axis, and some of the bones get relfected properly. Is this because I used extra bones? Is there a way I can fix it? I'd hate to have the sides move different with the same settings, but I couldn't manually paint them identically.

Richard Haseltine

Symmetry does require that the rigs match between left and right, so yes it is probably down to the extra bones.

aaráribel caađo

Grrr…it just occured to m that I manually placed the ends of the new bones, so they probably don't align. Is there a way to ensure symetry while splitting existing or creating new bones?

Richard Haseltine

I'm not sure, there's nothing immediately visible.