Maya Files:

This section contains all of my Maya MEL Scripts AND Maya Plug-ins that I have released. All of these items are supplied as is. You alone are soley responsible for any issues, damages or affects of the software, I make no warranties either implicit or implied as to the useablity, safety, or quality of the software. Use at your own risk.

If you are a programmer, you may also want to see my Maya API Help Page. and my CArray.h - Template C++ Class for Maya Arrays

MEL Script Suite

You can download ALL of my current MEL scripts, which includes a README on how to install and setup the cometMenu for them in the cometScripts.zip file. These scripts should work for both Maya 6.01, Maya 6.5 and Maya 7.0.

This script set includes:

• autoTangent - Animation utility for nicely smoothing tangents but without overshoot.
• cometAttrEditor - Quick attribute utility to re-order attrs up or down in the channel box.
• cometJointOrient - Complete Joint Orient script for properly setting up joint axis
• cometMenu - Builds a menu for all of the scripts found here.
• cometMirrorMesh - Modeling util for polygon point mirroring, selecting, storing and more. Good for blendshape creation. Requires my free PoseDeformer plugin as it uses one of the nodes.
• cometRename - Nice rename utility with complete Search/Replace, Prefix, Suffix and AutoNumbering.
• cometSaveWeights - Save and Reload skin weights by point order or point position.
• cometSkinWeight - A nice simple UI for setting weights without having to use the Component Editor.
• cometTransferWeights - Transfer skin weights from one or more joints onto another.
• libBubbleSort - MEL Library routines for custom bubble sort and comparison procs
• libMirror - MEL Library routines for mirroring object transforms.
• libSkin - MEL Library routines for working with skinClusters.
• libString - MEL Library routines for working with strings.
• mirrorSelX/Y/Z - Mirrors control objects for rotation behavior
• offsetConstraint - Lets you set up a Point or Orient contraint keeping offsets using an extra group.
• snaps - Basic snapping routines for snapping one object onto another.
• toggleAffected - Toggles the pink Maya display of affected nodes in the viewport.
• toggleIsolateSelect - Quick way to isolate select objects off and on in a viewport.
• toggleWireframeOnShaded - Toggles a viewports wireframe on shaded display.
• toggleXRay - Toggles a viewports XRay display.
• wireShape - Builds a number of custom control curve shapes.
• zeroOut - Zero out controls/transforms by inserting an extra group in the hierarchy.

Maya Plug-Ins

PLEASE NOTE: I am not supporting these plug-ins past Maya version 8.0. I do not have compiles for Maya 8.5, 2008 or after, if you wish to use it with these versions you must compile it yourself.

Version 1.01 now support a -skincl flag so you can specify to only reset the joints for a specific skinCluster instead of all skin clusters.
SOURCE CODE IS INCLUDED under the Gnu General Public License.
For more information you can also look at the Help file.

poseDeformer/poseReader 1.18 - Requires: Maya 6.01/6.5/7.0/8.0 - (Windows/LINUX/MacOSX PLUG-IN) - CATEGORY: Rigging

DESCRIPTION:
poseReader is a plug-in that lets you easily read pose angles of joints or nodes, and then drive whatever you want with that, such as a rig or blendShapes. This provides a very simple to set min and max angle with a visual object to see what is going on, and optionally can allow or disallow twisting to be counted when reading the pose. Good for driving pose driven deformations.

poseDeformer is a plug-in that lets you create sculpted corrective shapes similar to a blendshape, but with a true pose space deformer. It properly stores shapes in joint space and reapplies them after the skinCluster. Includes both this deformer and script, as well as the required poseReader plugin.

Version 1.18 now has a new userScale setting for the deformer, so that you can make scaleable rigs that work properly PSD deformation. In addition the ZIP file now contains all the bin MLL/SO files needed for Maya 6.01, 6.5, 7.0, and 8.0 for both Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!

You can now view a SAMPLE AVI MOVIE of the poseDeformer at work. This is a 560k DIVX 5 AVI movie.

SOURCE CODE IS INCLUDED under the Gnu General Public License.
For more information you can also look at the Help file.

If you are looking for more help, you can also check out a very nice page Matt Estela put together at:
http://www.tokeru.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MayaRigging