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Like the title says, have the tool work when selection edge components! Might as well support faces too.

Windows 10
Maya 2020.4

Ran the Drag 'n Drop Installer and ran the command:

from weights_editor_tool import weights_editor
weights_editor.run()

# Error: 'PySide2.QtWidgets.QShortcut' called with wrong argument types:
#   PySide2.QtWidgets.QShortcut(long, QWidget)
# Supported signatures:
#   PySide2.QtWidgets.QShortcut(PySide2.QtGui.QKeySequence, PySide2.QtWidgets.QWidget, Callable, PySide2.QtCore.Qt.ShortcutContext=PySide2.QtCore.Qt.ShortcutContext.WindowShortcut)
#   PySide2.QtWidgets.QShortcut(PySide2.QtGui.QKeySequence, PySide2.QtWidgets.QWidget, str=None, str=None, PySide2.QtCore.Qt.ShortcutContext=PySide2.QtCore.Qt.ShortcutContext.WindowShortcut)
#   PySide2.QtWidgets.QShortcut(PySide2.QtWidgets.QWidget)
# Traceback (most recent call last):
#   File "<maya console>", line 2, in <module>
#   File "C:/Users/colem/OneDrive/Documents/maya/scripts\weights_editor_tool\weights_editor.py", line 1799, in run
#     WeightsEditor.run()
#   File "C:/Users/colem/OneDrive/Documents/maya/scripts\weights_editor_tool\weights_editor.py", line 116, in run
#     inst = cls()
#   File "C:/Users/colem/OneDrive/Documents/maya/scripts\weights_editor_tool\weights_editor.py", line 111, in __init__
#     self.register_shortcuts()
#   File "C:/Users/colem/OneDrive/Documents/maya/scripts\weights_editor_tool\weights_editor.py", line 689, in register_shortcuts
#     hotkey.key_code(), hotkey.func))
#   File "C:/Users/colem/OneDrive/Documents/maya/scripts\weights_editor_tool\weights_editor_utils.py", line 35, in create_shortcut
#     shortcut = QtWidgets.QShortcut(key_sequence, get_maya_window())
# TypeError: 'PySide2.QtWidgets.QShortcut' called with wrong argument types:
#   PySide2.QtWidgets.QShortcut(long, QWidget)
# Supported signatures:
#   PySide2.QtWidgets.QShortcut(PySide2.QtGui.QKeySequence, PySide2.QtWidgets.QWidget, Callable, PySide2.QtCore.Qt.ShortcutContext=PySide2.QtCore.Qt.ShortcutContext.WindowShortcut)
#   PySide2.QtWidgets.QShortcut(PySide2.QtGui.QKeySequence, PySide2.QtWidgets.QWidget, str=None, str=None, PySide2.QtCore.Qt.ShortcutContext=PySide2.QtCore.Qt.ShortcutContext.WindowShortcut)
#   PySide2.QtWidgets.QShortcut(PySide2.QtWidgets.QWidget) #

Hello,
Thank you so much for developing this tool. I am a Softimage user and I really really miss Softimage's skinning workflow. Specially the weight editor.
By testing your tool, I notice a few things that I would like to give feedback on:

• The lowest preset for the ADD is too high. I think that the lowest increment should be 0.01
• The step of the spinner box is too high. I think that it is set to 10.
• Not sure how to use the spinner box. The value seems to be applied when pressing enter, but how to apply it multiple times? It feels like it is missing an "apply" button or an "ADD" and a "SUBTRACT" button that uses the spinner value.
• It would be awesome if there could be a slider like in the softimage weight editor. This is the feature that I miss the most. Being able to use a slider to add or remove weighting while seeing the result in real-time. And having that slider reset to zero when we change influence. (As an example, this is super useful when fine tweaking the weights of an edge loop around an elbow)
• The weight locking seems to work per joints, but it would be awesome if it could work per cell of the table. (This is probably a limitation of Maya I suppose)
• I do not know if it is possible, but it would be great when using the Softimage color theme if the colors on the polygons could use the weight values. In softimage it looks like the point colors are 100% of the main influence color, but the color on the polygons are weighted. This allows a better visualization of the weights. It is easier to see smoothed areas.

That is all that I can think of right now.
Great work! Thanks so much for this tool!

Can't export weights on curves, I assume this also means that we can't import weights on curves. Would be a valuable addition to round out this great tool.

Error follows:

return om2.MFnMesh(mdag_path)

ValueError: object is incompatible with MFnMesh constructor

I want to ask is there an update for maya 2025?
i tried to install it in 2025, but it didn't work

When switching to a new object to edit, it will throw an error if another object with the same name exists. This only happens in component mode, and is ok in object mode.

Pressing flood to closest, and then pressing the undo button on the menu doesn't work properly. It seems to change the weights on the weight table but it doesn't update the geometry in the viewport.

Tested on Maya 2022

Would be nice quickly toggle an influence's lock by clicking its header with some modifier held down (ctrl)

In Maya 2022, and possibly in previous versions, there seems to be a new issue with window focus. When I press space to lock a collumn it also minimizes or maximizes whichever viewport is under the window. This wasn't a problem before.

Considering how important the lock function is on this tool, this is a big deal. This tools strength is in how easy it is to lock and unlock weights so that you can steal weight from peter to give to paul in an easy manner.