Quote - Just to be clear, the area of the mesh that a joint's weight map affects is rational in that it doesn't include weight for every joint in the figure.

Sorry - I'm not trying to be dense, or an ass. 

That statement isn't a clarification in response to any assertion I made. You said here that a joint's map doesn't include weight for every joint. Right - I never asked that. I'm asking, true or false:

A joint's map includes weight for every VERTEX.

Put another way:

Each vertex has a weight value for every joint map.

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