Transfering bone weighting between bones in Avastar (help needed!)

[stoplight]

Okay, well. I somehow managed to mess up big time and not realize it until it was exactly time to upload my model. 😔

The simple and short of it is, I somehow ended up weighting everything to the animation rig, rather than the deforming rig; and I've already gone and perfected everything for animations and even made a test animation for it as well. I only noticed when I tried uploading and firestorm's importer started yelling at me about using the wrong bones. It's for a rigged mesh attachment for a dragon avatar, so it's even more troublesome to fix up... 😥

So I guess my big question is, is there any way to duplicate the weights I've done on the animation bones to the deformation bones? Or do I have to start all over with re-rigging the thing? Every time I looked up how to do so online has either given me information on how to weight mirror bones (not what I need), or to just copy the bones I have weighted and rename them (which only did some really wacky stuff to the rigging, or didn't work at all)... is there some trick I'm missing? 😥

[Quarrel Kukulcan]

47 minutes ago, stoplight said:

So I guess my big question is, is there any way to duplicate the weights I've done on the animation bones to the deformation bones?

You could rename each weight group manually. It'll be a little time-consuming, but if there's no alternative...