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Python Format for Outputting to JSON
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Rigging for Retargeting in Unreal Engine
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Unreal has a specific joint naming convention that will speed up retargeting animation if that is part of your pipeline. You would do well to rename your skinned skeleton to match Unreal’s naming convention. I have listed the naming convention below. As naming conventions go, its not that strong. You will notice that it does not follow traditional naming convention rules in that there is not a standardization in capitalization but whatever.
Center bones:
Root
Pelvis
spine_01
spine_02
spine_03
neck_01 – one might assume that because this ...
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SEP
2018
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SEP
2018
Set Transform Limits Script, Maya, Python
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https://github.com/sethmeshko/maya-rigging/blob/master/scripts/jfm_set_transform_limits.py
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPPskDfbslk&t=1s
GUI that allows user to set transform limits, lock and hide channels. The same editor allows you to remove limitations, unlock and display channels.
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APR
2018
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2018
select and object and run this script to find out the object type of the selected object (according to maya)
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FEB
2018
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2018
There is a GUI for this here. but this is a function that can be used in other scripts to do the same thing by passing the limits into the function:
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FEB
2018
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2018
I implement a rigging workflow such that I frequently reuse a bunch of common shapes. I keep them all in a specific directory (a folder called “assets” in the my documents maya folder).
I have a python function that I use to import those shapes and here it is!:
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JAN
2018
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JAN
2018
Radio buttons are a bit weird, they don’t have queryable data themselves, but they can run functions that will return values.
Here is how I used them:
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JAN
2018
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JAN
2018
I felt that it wasn’t immediately obvious how you go about doing this and It took a bit of research to figure out how it worked (and how it didn’t — as some tutorials that I followed seemed to maybe not be 100% sure of how it worked either)
There are two parts to this, one is in the GUI and the other is in the code that you want to use the info for:
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JAN
2018
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JAN
2018
I frequently have to have an object follow another object but that original object still has to be able to be controlled in the “local space” of the parent object, but then sometimes be independent of the parent object. Think an IK hand control.
Anyway, I have to do this so often that I thought I would write a script so I never have to do it again.
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JAN
2018
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