Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but we're starting to do character animations in my class.

so i have a simple guy with some legs, and trying to paint weights for the various leg joints.

but maya is being stuborn and rarely ever actually painting, i can hold the mouse button down and go over some areas of the leg over and over and nothing happens cept when it randomly seems to feel like it.

it sometimes will do something if i run over onto other parts of the body by accident.

is there some trick to it?

it's taking forever at the i'll-do-it-when-i-feel-like-it rate.
--jerome