This is why I want to BAKE it. Theres an old plugin I use in an older version that lets bake the blendshape to the original skinned mesh, thus keeping the model changes AND vert weighting.

Then I...

Basically I want to bake an altered blendshape down to the original skinned mesh so I could then delete the blendshape but keep the changes.

Ive asked on the Maya forums and no one responds, I...