Barque Tools: Anim [Maya Tools]

Hello There!

This is Barque Tools: Anim - v01

A Maya Tool (Made with Python/Pyside) containing helpful tools for users, it's mainly geared for animators but can come in handy for modelers & riggers... etc as well!

Demo Video Link

Tools Overview:

General/Quick tools:

• Bake animation from object to locator for given range (or time range if non provided)
• Cycle through Maya's default cameras
• Clear static/empty keys
• Line width increase for controls
• Line width decrease for controls
• Zero out Transform values of selected (back to 1 for scale and 0 for the others)
• Preserve space switch; Based on given controls and attributes
• Constrain and match transforms (for weapons, props etc)

Create Image plane/Sequence [Optional: Audio extraction]:

• Given a video file and an output location, this extracts an image sequence at 24fps and then adds it to Maya onto an image plane. Optionally if Audio box is ticked on it will also extract a .wav file of the audio in the video and add it to Maya's time editor.

Create Instance:

• Create a sidebar of instances that follow the camera (for in-place animations/objects)
• Create a mirrored instance

Recolor outliner:

• Separate color presets
• Maya eyedrop option for more colors
• A revert to original button

Four Arms rig by @Toldby3 ->

Four Arms