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Forum Archive › What’s the best way to add bones after weight painting? › Reply To: What’s the best way to add bones after weight painting?
If you’re adding a new bone to an already-parented armature, you simply need to add a new vertex group and copy the name of the new bone to that vertex group. That will maintain all other weights and allow for painting weight for the new bone.