Software:
Blender 2.8
To select bones while in Weight Paint mode in Blender 2.8:
- Select the Armature
- Shift select the skinned mesh
- Switch mode to Weight Paint
- Shift-Click bones to select them
* Shift double click to select bones hidden under the mesh
Update:
This has also been verified on Blender 3.6
Thanks, just what I needed!
Glad you found this useful! 🙂
If you select the mesh in the outliner tree, I think you should use Ctrl-Click and not Shift. I tried – with Shift it selects also all objects in between the two you wanted to select. Ctrl-Click selects only the ones you click on. However, when clicking in the scene, use Shift-Click. Blender can be so confusing with these inconsistencies…
It simply doesn’t work for me. It selects all bones at once and none specifically.
Same here sadly. I am not leaving a comment in the hopes of a solution. just letting people in the future know they are not alone. Tried so many things already.. I had like 5 things people told me to chance.. but nothing worked. I select them all. Did you find a solution?
I just checked this again on Blender 3.6 and it works as expected.