Mm, that's what I was thinking at first too, Justin. It's how I've seen most riggers do it for Maya characters and is how I do it myself.
It can sometimes it can be very useful to expose a parameter across several controls however, like Softimage Proxy seems to be doing it. An alternative I would suggest is to encapsulate such controls into a separate control, such as in the hud or as a separate ui widget. Ultimately, I assume you just want your animators to not have to switch their selection every time they toggle fk/ik, if they for instance are already using the hand or shoulder controls etc.? On 17 January 2014 11:55, Eric Thivierge <ethivie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well in softimage you create a parameter on an object. Then in the other > object you create a proxy parameter which is basically a short cut to that > master parameter. They are linked in the sense if you change the value on > one of the objects it reflects that change on the other and vice versa. > On Jan 17, 2014 2:11 AM, "Justin Israel" <justinisr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I might be totally wrong but isn't that a driven key? Where you have the >> group level control and all the child controls are driven from it? >> On Jan 17, 2014 7:54 PM, "Marcus Ottosson" <konstrukt...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Not sure about any official way to go about it, but you may be able to >>> attach a scriptJob to each attribute you want to mirror, having it listen >>> to its peers and update accordingly. >>> >>> Not the safest method, as there would be nothing stopping animators from >>> keying multiple mirrors causing undefined behaviour. >>> >>> How does Softimage deal with this by the way? >>> >>> >>> On 16 January 2014 23:32, Eric Thivierge <ethivie...@hybride.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey all, >>>> >>>> Has been a long time since dealing with Maya attributes and I remember >>>> setting this up somehow but can't find anything online about it. >>>> >>>> Setting up a rig, we usually have multiple instances of an "FKIK" >>>> attribute on the FK controls, the IK controls, and maybe in other locations >>>> as well. How do you have 1 master attribute living on a group object and >>>> have a reference to it on the FK, IK, and other controls where if I change >>>> one FKIK attribute on one of the controls, all the other reflect the same >>>> value? >>>> >>>> In Softimage we have ProxyParameters. >>>> >>>> General question on how to set this up, then I'll need to script this >>>> as well. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Eric T. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>>> msgid/python_inside_maya/52D86C13.8040505%40hybride.com. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Marcus Ottosson* >>> konstrukt...@gmail.com >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAFRtmOD%3DhY0UgEh9WzLdfn6Wc6g4ditLGbRCOo5vkm7fnqrJSQ%40mail.gmail.com >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAPGFgA3bTYTYLxNPDmgfwjmtig96egWSJNrcC_aoUvG9BhF9cg%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAAjrnHsuXZo4vD6B_oTwgd%3D54XFPTK-jhEQwYL0WZtydWCF7%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- *Marcus Ottosson* konstrukt...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. 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