Heya. I've been using Maya now for almost 10 years and this is the first time I've ever encountered a problem like this.

I was told to edit a few pre-rigged avatars and everything seems ok, except...

In your "Paint skin weights tool, go to tool settings where it says "normalize weights" change it from post to interactive.

If I am not mistaken, that was the solution to my problem. Hope I...

Yes actually. there is a checkbox that will revert your skinning process to what is "should" be. Give me a bit to go through and see if I can find the box. I haven't touched maya in ages >.<

Hello, I am jumping from using maya 2010 to using 2013, and I have run into an issue with skinning. (It seems to be a new added feature somewhere between 2011 and 2013)

When I paint skin weights,...

Okay, It has been years since I rigged anything, and I just went to rig and skin a simple model on a computer that has Maya 2013. The last time I rigged anything, it was on a comp with Maya 2010

I...