simple weighting question

[TripleM25]

I followed Psykosith's and space monkey's tuts, and it does not specify what color you want the areas to be when weighting. Atleast, I didn't see it, might of overlooked it. I understand the difference between the red and blue, but what color do you want it to be. How much do I want the meshes to be affected by the bones.

[keshire]

goes blue to red. Red being the bone in question has the most control over.

 

example.

 

The hand: you'd want the hand bone to have more control than the radius if both were weighted to it.

 

Otherwise use your own judgement, your also allowed to move the bones to see how the deform is, just make sure to undo the change because you don't want to be moving bones permanently.