[Tutorial] Solutions for Bone Heat Weighting Error
Every day, all around the world, people are pressing Ctrl+P > Automatic Weights, eager to start posing and animating a character.
Instead, they get... crickets. The character is not attached to the rig at all. What's going on?
Only the most observant blender heads notice the semi-hidden message at the bottom of the Blender interface: "Bone heat weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones" .
This video is a collection of the best solutions to this problem. Hope it's useful!