Mayarigging

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Contents 1 PYTHON RIGGING TOOL 2 NODE ATTRS 3 MANIPS 4 CONSTRAINTS 5 CUSTOM DATASETS 6 GRAPH RULES

PYTHON RIGGING TOOL

Class Overview

CLASSES

Python Stuff for Rig Tool

RIG_TODO_LIST

Python shelf commands

COMMAND_SHELVES

Attribute Refference

ATTR_REFF

Custom Node scripting language

SEED SCRIPT

NODE ATTRS

setxform
addattr
rootmanip
mirror
orient_joint

MANIPS

"""
NOBUILD tag 
"""

MANIP TYPES

flatbox
square
box
circle
giza

SCALED OFFSET MANIP

"""
ASOM - (scaled offset manip)
the bulk of the manip classes, this offers a way to not only interface to GL_PY_MANIP class
but it has a series of pretransform options to custoize the scale and "look" of a manip
"""

'manip_scaled_offset','flatbox' ) 

'mnp_scale_offset_pre'  ,'[5,1,5]' 
'mnp_rotate_offset_pre' ,'[0,0,0]' 
'mnp_xform_offset_pre'  ,'[0,0,0]' 
'mnp_xform_offset'      ,'[0,0,0]' 

CONSTRAINTS

manip constrained to object (xform)
mnp_cs_obj

#jnt_cnstrn_mnp ('null')#no value passed#

This will attach the local manip to the local joint via a parent constraint

if mnp_cs_obj attr is present, then 
make a "motion-locked" constraint handle and attach it to specified xfrom 

#grp_cnstrn_obj ('objectname') #pass a value# 

parent constrain group of local to object that is passed as a value

#mnp_cnstrn_obj ()

parent contsrain local manip to object 

CUSTOM DATASETS

SPINE

"""
spine is the most complex data set, it inserts a second graph into specidied node
the grap path is the attributes value

it also contains a graph editor to create a spline based joint chain if none exists
the numvertebra tag sets the number of vertebra
the numclusters sets the number of controls the final rig has
if numclusters is actually an interval (divide by total # verts) to place controls
"""

'build_spine' ,'C:/keith_def_spine.klsys'     
'num_vertebra'  ,'20'                    
'num_clusters'  ,'7'                     
'stretch_factor' ,'.32'                  

REVERSE FOOT

"""
reverse foot is pretty straightforward it looks for 3 joints beneath the tagged attr
these become the template for the reverse foot control
this gets parented to a GLmanip
"""

'reverse_foot_start'
NOBUILD tag 

NECKSPINE

"""
NECKSPINE is a secondary spine (top half of spine)
it is a "secondary graph" stored in the tags of multiple nodes
the tags are indexed , so each item may have a specific sequence
it then takes these objects and 

> creates a group node for each item 
>parentcontrains the item to the previous group
this ensures transforms are intact when animated
"""

 'add_neck_spine'        ,'index_1' )      

startik','rotateplane'   
orient_joint','y'   
jnt_cnstrn_mnp'        
add_neck_spine'        
endik','rotateplane'  
polevector',

add_ik_manip' 
xform_group'      
add_neck_spine'        

GRAPH RULES