So… I’ve actual done episode 4, Driven Key stages, twice.
Simply put: I didn’t like the way the day went the first time, so I streamed an additional day to re-do it, which you might hear me mention a few times on this video.
That detail aside, the redux went well, and here we go through the footroll’s offset stages and show some Maya features (Set Driven Keys) and how they actually work under the hood.
Enjoy,
As usual with nodelling + fluff videos there isn’t a lot to be said here.
We establish more boundaries for the footroll work, in the form of the interface details for the smallest possible bit, and we get to work on that.
Enjoy,
Not a lot to add here that won’t be obvious from the video itself.
I originally intended to start more from the animation interface, but ended up discussing graphs as a problem solving notion with a fair chunk of actual rigging in Maya first.
We’ll start on an implementation proper and discuss the interface next episode.
Enjoy,
In the interest of building up vocabulary on math fundamentals for the rest of the season we introduce Set and Graph Theory.
Both the video description and a comment under it contain an Errata Corrige I have to make here as well:
While talking about the inverse function of sin, arcsin, I mention the co-domain of the function being -pi to +pi; that is incorrect, as the domain of arcsin spans the half circle, and therefore is -1/2pi to +1/2pi
This wraps up the pilot season of the stream. Thanks everybody for following.
This episode is about an often overlooked feature of Maya, at least in rigging, assets.
Also, courtesy of a viewer there is an answer to my ramblings about proxy attributes that takes place towards the end, and while for now it’s a commands only thing, and it will alter your graph in potentially circular ways, it seems serviceable already.
The flag I show in the API also has a related command flag to establish an attribute as a proxy, and it’s pretty simple to use.
In its mel form:
addAttr -ln "proxyName" -proxy "sourceObject.attr" targetObject
And here’s the video, Enjoy: