Picker

Yet another flexible picker for animators in Maya.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN8QXDixv8 (out of date)

Features

• Highly customizable.
  Animators can add new controls, import and combine pickers.
• Image backgrounds.
  Each item can represent an image, which is stored in a picker itself.
• Double click selection groups.
• Custom python scripts on click.
• Selection and visibility synchronization with Maya.
  This works for widgets that have a single control.
• Undo support.
• Multiple pickers.
• Scalable and pannable (using alt).
• Pickers are stored in the scene.

How to run

Add picker folder to your script path and run as

import picker
picker.restoreFromMayaNode() # restore pickers from current scene or create a new one

Custom shapes

All shapes are kept in shapes.json as SVG-path items. So you can use any SVG-path editor to draw what you need and insert it here in shape.json.

Animschool picker converter

Use animschool_converter.py script for this purpose. Run the following.

import picker.animschool_converter
picker.animschool_converter.convertFromPkrFile("D:/somepicker.pkr")