This script pack for Maya 2016/2015/2014 will help you to improve your animating productivity in next fields:
— timeline management and navigation for all your animations
— re-bake of the animation for your modified controllers of the rig
— rotate your character or object freely around any point and any axis
Features:
Anim Manager.
— Enter and re-arrange items in animation list (animations stored in one timeline)
— Simplest manipulation with the animation list (adding items, deleting, renaming, filtering)
— Fast editing offset in the list
— Simple export and import of the list
— Color marking of the items on the timeline (colored key ticks)
https://youtu.be/wSPcah6ohn8 — this video demonstrates Anim Manager in work.
Re-Baker.
— You can build the list of the animated controllers, re-arrange their order in the list for proper hierarchy and record their animation for further usage
— Animation can be recorded in world or local space
— You can bake stored animation for your different purposes:
- bake animation into another rig with similar naming of the controllers (script recognizes namespaces)
- bake to the original rig after changing their hierarchy of the controllers
- bake animation after deleting animation from the root, in that way animation of the child controllers will restored
Dynamic root.
— You can snap pointer to any object, adjust the rotation of the pointer
— After picking object you can set "Key" button which will switch rotation pivot of the root system to the new point
Requirements:
This script pack was tested in 2014, 2015 and 2016 versions of the maya software.
If you encountered with any bugs in earlier versions, please, let me know.
Installation :
Copy this file in your maya scripts folder (for example - C:\Users\***Username***\Documents\maya\2015-x64\scripts)
Copy one of desired icons (_a - postfix means that icon with transparent background) in your icon folder (for example - C:\Users\***Username***\Documents\maya\2015-x64\prefs\icons)
Open Maya, open the script editor and in a mel tab paste one line :
AnimAssist()
Select this line and with middle mouse click drag it to your shelf
Then assign the icon to the script via the shelf editor
Version updates:
Version 1.2
- Added playblast section!
- Each name selected in Anim manager is a name for the playblast video.
- You can add a prefix and postfix to the name and select desired save path.
- Prefix, postfix and file path will be stored inside each scene individually.
- With the right mouse button menu you can quickly paste the frames of the selected animation to the postfix/prefix fields.
- The main script window now remembered position of the separator which divide anim manager section from re-baker and from dynamic root. So now you need not hide undesirable section each time!
Version 2.0
- New design
- Improved functionaliy (see image instruction)
- Supporting 2017 maya version
Please use the Feature Requests to give me ideas.
Please use the Support Forum if you have any questions or problems.
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