the lower a polycount character is the better they bend.

weight mapping is to help a character bend better.

weights glue meshes dots or points or vertices to the bone buy percentage .

you can glue a vertice to a bone at 100 %.

or take the same vertice glue it to one bone at 10% and 90% to another bone.

so 2 bones can control the same vertice.

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