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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Comet Cartoon Scripts ROCK

I would like to take a second to plug the fine folks over at Comet Cartoons. They have made several maya mel scripts and plugins that make my life worth living again. The one I just discovered today is a incredible life saver.

CometSaveWeight: I had to delete my history on my Cootie today in order to unwrap the UVs, which causes the skin to be unbound. I have used a few other scripts in the past to save weights, but those are very slow and sometimes have bugs. Comet's weight save is very fast and reliable, and best of all it saves the weight data in one simple text file that even gives you a list of the joints that are in the bind. Saved me so much time today.

resetSkinJoint: This is a plugin I have been using for some time, and is another massive rigging time saver. Ever wish you could just nudge a joint over after you skin and weight the mesh? With this little baby you can, simply move the joint, run the plugin, and it resets the mesh back to where it was before, and all your deformations are pretty.

They have some more plugins that I plan to use, especially the auto-tangent. If you are doing any rigging they are a must have.

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