blender weightpaint rigging help?

[Carissa Claridge]

I am using avastar, its just killing me 

 

 

is there a way to copy the left sleeve weight paint to the right sleeve?   but only the bottom half of the sleeve not the top?





what i did was before i binded it to armatear I put one arm in the air and one arm by her side 

so that the weights would be perfect for each pose, but now I need to copy for each side.

 

 



[Gaia Clary]

if your mesh is perfectly symmetric, then you should be able to copy the weights over to the other side. Here is a documentation for how you can copy weights:

http://avastar.online/help/copy-bone-weights/

[edit]:I just saw that the chapter for copy only a subset of weights is missing in the doc. Basically you follow what the document says for weight paint mode, but you enable vertex select mask, then select the vertices for which the weights shall be copied and proceed as described.

I will add a chapter for this soon. thanks for pointing me to that its missing.