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| Despite the old adage: 'A poor carpenter blames their tools' I still wouldn't hire a carpenter that uses a rock instead of a hammer. |
Tech Workflow/Tips
A list of my favorite tools for Maya
Pose2Shelf - dead simple Mel script to make pose and selection buttons on the maya shelf
(https://www.highend3d.com/maya/script/pose-2-shelf-for-maya)
Studio Library - a more robust solution for saving libraries of poses.
(https://www.studiolibrary.com/)
bhGhost - Overlap and follow through, polishing are made much easier with this tool
(http://www.graphite9.com/MayaDownloads.html)
Delete Decimal Keys - if you work with mocap, or you scale animation a lot - this will save you
(https://www.highend3d.com/maya/script/delete-decimal-keys-with-time-slider-for-maya)
whSetZeroKey - Sets selected object Tran/Rot = 0 and vis/scale + 1. Filtered by channel box selection.
(https://www.highend3d.com/maya/script/wh-set-zero-for-maya#google_vignette)
Works best when bound to a hotkey. Here's how to set up the script and bind it to a hotkey:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h-FjVUyQ-Y)
Mel Script for hiding stuff in the view (copy and paste the stuff between the ----)
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// this hides everything in your view windows except NURBS and Polygons (in the viewport menu under "show") ;
// it also activates selection masking for everything except NURB curves
modelEditor -e -allObjects 0 modelPanel4;
modelEditor -e -nurbsCurves true modelPanel4;
modelEditor -e -polymeshes true modelPanel4;
modelEditor -e -allObjects 0 modelPanel3;
modelEditor -e -nurbsCurves true modelPanel3;
modelEditor -e -polymeshes true modelPanel3;
modelEditor -e -allObjects 0 modelPanel2;
modelEditor -e -nurbsCurves true modelPanel2;
modelEditor -e -polymeshes true modelPanel2;
modelEditor -e -allObjects 0 modelPanel1;
modelEditor -e -nurbsCurves true modelPanel1;
modelEditor -e -polymeshes true modelPanel1;
//this part turns on selection masking
setObjectPickMask "All" 0;
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Animating Metahuman in Maya
Popular Tools I don't use
ATools - retired and replaced by AnimBot. Tutorial video HERE
(https://camiloalan.wixsite.com/atoolswebsite)
Tween Machine - not my cup of tea, but lots of people love it for building in-betweens
(https://justinsbarrett.com/tweenmachine/)
Handbrake - freeware video encoder.
(https://handbrake.fr/)
