Week of July 6

[jjburton]

Have a week off and wanna hit some stuff.

Vids

• [x] adding controls to MRS

Scene

• [x] Auto load meta
• [ ] Copy shot list dat
• [ ] Combine project and scene to one tool

IK

• [x] flesh out curve replacement for ribbon

LIMB

• [x] Segment handles when no roll joints. This would be handy on a current project
• [x] Implement simple scale setup
• [ ] double hinge joints setup
• [x] new curve setup

Optimization

• [ ] Try setup for moving settings out of rig structure
• [ ] Rig node store takes a while. Instead, let's look at using an object set for that rather than message connections
• [ ]

Config/Shapedat

• [ ] Shape dat to ui
• [ ] Push through current attempt to getting handle, segment, limb shape sharing

Docs

• [x] Post Functions Setup - https://github.com/jjburton/cgmTools/wiki/mrs-%7C-Post-Processes
• [x] Toon
• [ ] Wing
• [x] Fingers

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Benn's Limb bug

Benn had a bug on a file

Follow parent not working on toes

• step build. Working okay.
• building template, built fine. Checked if follow parent bank was on and it wasn't for the toes so...
• turned it on
• step build. Found bug
• fixed bug
• doing full build to verify...

[jjburton]

Segment handles with no roll

This is working and feels better.

• spline or linear segment is best when no roll present
• perhaps a new logic check here makes sense?
• do we need a special attribute turn this on or not?

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Simple Scale

Been a while getting back to this. Wanna get this just more useful

• [x] spline segment
• [x] linear segment
• [ ] ribbon segment with none squash measure
• [ ] ribbon segment with arc length

Spline and liner curves was simple. There's a bug with non squash measure to loop back to. With the arc length we need to insert in the factored scale to the distance stuff.

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Simple curve squash setup

Need a more reusable curve setup for this. Been putting this off a bit. might was well fix it up.

• [x] orient doesn't matter
• [x] pointDist
• [x] arcLen
• [x] aim possible, later for traditional splineIK

mBlock.moduleTarget.rigNull.msgList_get('segmentHandles_0')
mc.ls(sl=1)
d = {'jointList':[u'start_segJnt', u'seg_1_segJnt', u'seg_2_segJnt', u'seg_3_segJnt', u'seg_4_segJnt', u'end_segJnt'],
     'influences':[u'start_handle_anim', u'seg_1_handle_anim', u'seg_2_handle_anim', u'end_handle_anim'],
     'settingsControl':'simple_settings_anim',
     'setupAim':1,
     }

import cgm.core.rig.ik_utils as IK
reload(IK)

IK.curve(**d)

• Added initial arclength setup and extra squash

d = {'jointList':[u'start_segJnt', u'seg_1_segJnt', u'seg_2_segJnt', u'seg_3_segJnt', u'seg_4_segJnt', u'end_segJnt'],
     'influences':[u'start_handle_anim', u'seg_1_handle_anim', u'seg_2_handle_anim', u'end_handle_anim'],
     'settingsControl':'simple_settings_anim',
     'setupAim':1,
     'squashStretch':1,
     'squashStretchMain':'arcLength',
     'masterScalePlug':'create',
     'baseName':'test',
     'extraSquashControl':1,
     }

Really want to have localized additive scale and maybe roll setups later working. Currently this is working without the arclength how I like but I want to combine it. To do so I want to try a scale 'reader' and plug that back into the md value.