Maya Tools

Ok, here we go with the release of this tool. If you have been following the previous post you probably have notice that I changed the name from Sculpt Inbetween Manager to Sculpt Inbetween Editor. Well, I have to be honest that I have some concerns of what you probably will deal with using this tools because might not be easy to understand right away but I can really say that I really try to make it the most intuitive powerful and reliable tool to sculpt not only correctives in the pose but also add inbetweens and make this target even more important.  I’m sure that people will find bugs, hopefully nothing too crazy but if that happens, send me the error message so I can try to fix it on my spare time. Save your work before and during the usage of this tool and keep in mind that I used a hack to let the UNDO working in sync with maya scene so don’t expect that it will work all the time. Well, I don’t want to explaing all the usage here now but I can say that I will be posting more documentation in Images, text or videos soon.

Compatible:  Windows / Linux / MacOs

Maya2012 or above required

To install:

– Place the script files into the maya’s user scripts folder

  Ex:  C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\maya\scripts (Windows)

– Place the icon files into the maya’s user icons folder

  Ex:  C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\maya\MAYAVERSION\prefs\icons (Windows)

-To automatically install the icon of the tool into the selected current shelf  go to the Maya’s bottom mel command line and type

  in this order pressing ENTER to each command below:

rehash

dslSie_install

Those are the videos that I made in Beta version witch was not release to the public.

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dslSIM is a tool that took me almost one year to develop. It’s a tool that gives the user the possibility to bake(PSD), mirror targets, edit their deltas and administrate inbetweens.  I first started to develop this tool with the motivation to not only have a missing ibetween editor in maya but also learn more programming and for the challenge to understand the PSD calculation. I have to be honest that I couldn’t complete this without the help of friends and a lot of research. Thanks to everyone who have helped me!!

The original blendShape node offers a great option to add ibetweens but unfortunately Maya doesn’t provide any UI to manager and that’s where I came with this idea to create “Sculpt Inbetween Manager”. It’s a big script containing  almost 5000 lines of code wrapping some Maya API modules for the calculation of the PSD and lots and lots of lines for the UI to manage the original blendShape node. I can say “sculpt” because you can sculpt on pose and use the built in PSD to revert the shape also “Inbetween manager” because it gives you the ability to move, copy, paste, delete, edit and mirror the correctives inbetweens. I Will be releasing soon after I finish some documentation that I will be making through videos. For now check this one to see the basics of what the tool can do and feel free to post some comments.

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