A nice character modeling time-saver:

In WeightPaint mode, pose-mode armatures now allow selecting Bones, but
without making the Armature object active.
Selecting a Bone then results in selecting the associated vertexgroup. :)

Little quirk; all armatures with posemode then draw selectable...

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/src/editview.c b/source/blender/src/editview.c
index 0710a1e8703..d70cf34140a 100644
--- a/source/blender/src/editview.c
+++ b/source/blender/src/editview.c
@@ -1266,7 +1266,13 @@ void mouse_select(void)
 			}
 			
 			if(has_bones && basact) {
-				do_pose_selectbuffer(basact, buffer, hits);
+				if( do_pose_selectbuffer(basact, buffer, hits) ) {	// bone found
+				
+					/* in weightpaint, we use selected bone to select vertexgroup, so no switch to new active object */
+					if(G.f & G_WEIGHTPAINT) {
+						basact= NULL;
+					}
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	}