Maya 2024 - copy skin from mesh to component no longer working

[fruityfrank]

Hello,

A feature seems to have been removed on Maya2024, that was working before

Copy Skin Weights from one mesh to a set: if I want to copy a skinweight from e.g. pSphere1 onto pSphere2.vtx[0:9], before, I was able to create a selection set (Create>set), named "foo", for my component list, then select "pSphere1". select "foo", and copy skin weights.

This does not work anymore, and instead, will copy mesh to mesh, regardless of the components present in your "foo" set. I suspect it has to do with the new skinCluster Source/Target listView widget at the bottom of the Copy Skin Weights window option

This is extremely annoying and I don't see any convenient workaround.

Am I missing something, or maybe there is another way to do this now ?

Any help would be really appreciated

Thanks

[michael_rewKQTJJ]

Doesn't work in 2023 either - I've gone back to 2022 to just to do this one function. Vertex/Point snapping crashes Maya in 2022 so I'm basically rigging between 2-3 different versions of Maya if I need a plugin.

[vincent.touacheVKP9E]

sounds so familiar!

Back to the copy skin problem at hand, turns out you can now work with selections, and you no longer have to work with sets like you used to. Therefore, you can do :

cmds.copySkinWeights(source_mesh, target_components)

or from the viewport, select your source mesh, your destination vertices, and copySkinWeights