How to paint weights for robot spider:

[ryansnobjectivist]

Hello. I need to animate my robot spider model in Maya like this. Unfortunately I don't know how to paint the weights well enough to manipulate the model.Currently the limbs on the spider are arranged and weighted like this. Also whenever I move the joints the model deforms instead of moving. Can anyone help me with that?

[mcw0]

Robots in general are very straightforward to weight as the majority, if not all of the meshes are rigid.  Some robots might have flexible joints but for the most parts, just weight with a full value of 1 to the appropriate joint.