Blender had a very useful “Transfer Weights” feature up to 2.73.
It appears that this was replaced in 2.74 with “Transfer Mesh Data”, but I have not been able to replicate the results of the former with the latter (Data Type = Vertex Groups, Vertex Mapping = Nearest). I also find it less convenient and the workflow is backwards (select target, then source).
Is this still work-in-progress?
Any chance of equipping Blender 2.74 with the old “Transfer Weights” feature?
I grepped the scripts folder, but only found references to “object.vertex_group_transfer_weight” which seems to be a built-in feature and not a python script.