Smooth envelope not working

[hidalgo]

Hello,

Sorry for posting here instead in the rigging section, but thats something related to overall all smoothing in xsi, i am using the 2014 version, but for some reasons the smooth envelope brush doesnt seems to work at all, i can apply, add or erase without problems, but the smooth its a nope!

Does anybody have experienced the same problem or have an idea on what its going on? i am using gear-mc too.

thanks

[Mathaeus]

Noticed something like that in past, exactly when opening the scene in new version. Usually helped to refresh the brush tools by 'shaking' them a bit, let's say, by setting the geo approx level up or down - this refreshes the OGl cache, I guess.
In any case, worth to check out, does envelope smoothing works, when it's applied without brushes, by selecting some points and running the operator from animate panel. Or from weight editor. Does smooth envelope operator appear in explorer, in any of these cases.

[forton]

Also make sure the object is "selectable".

[mattmos]

Double check the size of your mesh - if it has been scaled down a fair bit it can cause issues with the painting tools.

[hidalgo]

@mattmos the character have not being scaled, it has being freeze and everything is at origin, i have tried appplying the apply smooth operator from the envelope painting and it does work, but if i go with the smooth brush it doesnt do anything.

@forton yes its selectable

@Mathaeus yes, strangelly it does work with the "general" smoothing on the paint envelope, what does not work is only on the smoothing brush and even more weirder its not giving the same error on all meshes of the character, but only on few of them.

[mattmos]

Have you left any gear operators active (for example envelope operators)? sometimes these will not allow any changes to occur until they're frozen off. Other than that the only thing I can think of is some ice data being set somewhere which could be interfering.

[druitre]

Simulation stack (with or without ICEtree in it... can't remember specifics, but I've had to move ICEtrees from simstack to other stack, then delete sim stack to be able to use some operators, then recreate simstack and move back tree)