Giant Otter Build

[jjburton]

• [x] Scene | rework file version name to include subtype
• [x] Reverse FK for spine
• [x] See if head has the root scale setup
• [x] There seems to be an issue with the snap changes with position set stuff. May need to turn off the select before move by default
• [ ] Eye - looked at angled lid setup
• [ ] Muzzle - see what we can do with it here
• [ ] Head | add the root neck control option to build setup

[jjburton]

Head/Spine

• [ ] Look at ik base for neck again to see if we get fuller control there
• [x] Reverse FK setup

[jjburton]

Reverse FK Spine

• [x] Joints
• [x] Shapes
• [x] Controls
• [x] Frame
• [x] Test
• [ ] Reverse FK Root

Going to need a reverse fk root

[jjburton]

Reverse FK Utils

• [x] Pickwalking
• [x] Getting keyed?
• [x] Switch | FK to FK Reverse
• [x] Switch | IK to FK Reverse
• [x] Switch | FK Reverse to FK
• [x] Switch | FK Reverse to IK

[jjburton]

There's an issue with controller data setup. The reverse FK stuff kinda brought it to a head. Requirements:

• Control can have multiple tags
• Non destructive to old rigs
• Way to reorder a series of controls

How should we store it.

• json dict method `{'tag':idx,'tag':'skip'}

mModule = mBlock.moduleTarget
reload(mModule.UTILS)
mModule.atUtils('controls_getDat',report=True)
mModule.atUtils('controls_getDat',rewire=True)
pprint.pprint(mModule.atUtils('controls_getDat','fk'))
pprint.pprint(mModule.atUtils('controls_getDat','fkReverse'))
pprint.pprint(mModule.atUtils('controls_getDat','ik'))

pprint.pprint(mModule.atUtils('controls_getDat','fk'))
pprint.pprint(mModule.rigNull.msgList_get('fkControls'))
pprint.pprint(mModule.rigNull.msgList_get('fkReverseControls'))
pprint.pprint(mModule.rigNull.msgList_get('rigJoints'))
pprint.pprint(mModule.rigNull.msgList_get('handleJoints'))
mModule.rigNull.scaleRoot
pprint.pprint(mModule.mControlsAll)
pprint.pprint(mModule.rigNull.moduleSet.getList())

pprint.pprint(mc.sets(mModule.rigNull.moduleSet.mNode, q = True))

_d = {}
for mCtrl in mModule.mControlsAll:
    _type = mCtrl.getMayaAttr('cgmTypeModifier') or mCtrl.getMayaAttr('cgmName')
    if not _d.get(_type):
        _d[_type] = []

    _d[_type].append(mCtrl)

pprint.pprint(_d)

[jjburton]

Head

• [x] New root control shape
• [x] add root ik control option

...

• replace the root orient method I've been using as a bandaid the last year
• reworked a good bit of indexing and what no for switching to work properly with long necks and mid controls

[jjburton]

Build issues

• [ ] cgmPosition isn't carrying over from blockDat

[jjburton]

Rig 2 Issues

• [ ] 2023 throwing cycle errors on a few things, 2018 is not
• [ ] Jaw needs scale space setup to scale with the head