Specified weight could not be set due to locked influences

[Anonymous]

hello everyone i have problem doing paint weight . it show warning "specified weight could not be set due to locked influences" .. any idea how to "Unlock" this  ? .

i read other forum about this issue .. he said : "in the paint skin weights dialog box, move down the list and see what bones/influences have (hold) written right next to them. Select the joint in the list and click "Toggle Hold Weights On Selected".

what does he means ? i cant find how to do this in my paint skin weight dialog box

[gautham.chandran47]

Select the skinned mesh and go to paint weight tool and you can see the influences in the "paint skin weight tool" window.

Find the joint which is locked . It will show a yellow locked icon on the left, here its all unlocked and grey. Left click on it to make it unlocked.

[Anonymous]

hye mate , thank you for your respond ..

yes .. i already checked and unlock every joints but still have same warning ..

did i skip something ? 

[Anonymous]

just discovered something . i tried open my project file to other PC , and everything is fine .

so maybe my maya 2017 is problem . so i uninstalled then installed again . but it still show the warning mesage. 

any idea what should i do ?

[mspeer]

Hi!

You installed the latest update for Maya 2017?

[Anonymous]

hello , 

Yes i already update to update 3 .

[mspeer]

Hi!

Latest is update 5.

[Anonymous]

hi ,

ya now i already update to latest update 5 .. 

i open my project file to other PC with maya 2017 basic with no update , the paint weight is working normally ..

is it my mac not support to do this ? because i create new project and did a simple rig , still the have the same warning .

thank you for ur respond btw

[mspeer]

Hi!

Try a reset of your preferences.
Rename the folder prefs in folder 2017 to something like prefs_backup, or to reset everything, the folder 2017 to 2017_backup (or even the maya folder to maya_backup). Maya creates new folders (don't copy preferences from previous Maya versions). Detailed at:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Reset-May...

[Anonymous]

hi,

i follow all ur steps and the link given.. and its still not working . but it fixed other warning msg .

thank you btw . 🙂

[mspeer]

Hi!

Please provide an example scene with a simple rig that does not work for you.

[samdbeeman]

Hi!

For future reference, this problem can be fixed via skin > edit influences > set max influences and then increasing the number.

Essentially, every vert can only be influenced by a set number of joints. The default is 4 or 5, but for really smooth deformations this might not be enough.

[mfortmue]

Thanks!!! I was just having this problem and would have never come up with this solution.

[LandArmor]

I figured it out. Try to change attribute "Max Influences" to 2 or more in skinCluster node.

[delacruz_correaQ8SH7]

This helps even in Maya 2025...

[delvin_dupre]

I've tried all these, and I still have this issue