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March 23, 2020 at 11:42 pm #55295
Wayne Dixon
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    Hi @xman544 ,

    It works the same in 2.8x, however, I suspect you’re missing 1 thing.  There’s several ways to create the actual groups but it sounds like you’re already halfway there so here’s a little bit of a checklist rather than trying to explain all the different ways of doing that.

    -Make sure the name of the vert group matches the name of the bone exactly.

    -Make sure the bone is set to actually deform (this is enabled by default when the bone is created)

    -On the Mesh object, you need to have an armature modifier (with the correct armature in the settings)

    -Parenting isn’t actually needed for it to work but it’s a good idea to parent the mesh to the rig. (this is the step that can automatically add the armature modifier to the mesh which sometimes gets forgotten)

    Hope that helps.